About the Business Unit
The Product team at Epsilon develops and builds powerful platforms that connect millions of customers worldwide with brands. This team focuses on creating an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. They leverage industry best practices and advanced capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to set new benchmarks for products and deliver smart end-to-end solutions.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Director of Software Engineering to lead the development of a modern Integration Platform. This platform will ingest, transform, and load data from various third-party connectors into Epsilon's core People Cloud Platform. The role requires strong technical leadership, deep software engineering expertise, and a passion for modern infrastructure and deployment practices. You will lead and mentor high-performing engineering teams while actively contributing to architectural decisions and code review efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of an extensible integration platform to onboard and manage data from various systems.
- Architect and oversee data ingestion pipelines from external APIs, file-based sources, and event streams into the People Cloud using Databricks, Spark, and custom ETL services.
- Build reusable, scalable connector frameworks with monitoring, retry logic, and transformation capabilities.
- Ensure seamless integration with the People Cloud's APIs, data models, and customer-facing features.
- Drive backend development with Java/Spring Boot and real-time and batch data processing strategies.
- Oversee the frontend architecture (Angular) for internal tools and dashboards managing connectors, data flows, and transformation logic.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and cloud infrastructure teams to align technical delivery with business goals.
- Ensure the platform is multi-cloud compatible, leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP services where needed.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and blue-green deployment strategies for highly reliable releases.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering, with a strong foundation in backend systems and data engineering.
- 5+ years of leadership experience, including team building, mentoring, and delivery management.
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and building cloud-native microservices.
- Strong understanding of data integration patterns, API consumption, and real-time/batch ETL.
- Experience building multi-connector frameworks is a significant plus.
- Knowledge of Angular for front-end development and dashboarding.
- Proven experience with multi-cloud deployment, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and blue-green deployments in production environments.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Experience
- Building integrations with systems like Salesforce, Workday, Marketo, Google Ads, Segment, Snowflake.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, or equivalent data processing platforms.
- Strong understanding of data integration patterns, API consumption, and real-time/batch ETL.
