Company: Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Full-time
Industry: Beverage Manufacturing
About the Company
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor and a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. They are heavily invested in transformative new technologies and are looking for brilliant tech professionals to join their team.
Job Overview
The Senior Director, Data and AI/ML Engineering will lead and manage a high-performing team of data analysts, data/semantic modelers, data engineers, machine learning engineers, and automation specialists. This position requires a deep understanding of Data, AI-ML technologies, strong leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a high-performing team
- Oversee the development, testing, and deployment of Data, Semantic, AI-ML models and automation solutions
- Establish and enforce data governance policies
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Ensure AI/ML and automation practices comply with relevant regulations and ethical standards
- Lead a sizable growing organization focused on productizing generative AI features
- Define, grow, and hire key IC and people leaders to scale up the Data, AI-ML Engineering teams
- Lead the planning and delivery of features across various workstreams
- Define and implement a predictable execution framework
- Engage deeply with the architecture team and lead on architecture, data flows, API design
- Drive headcount strategy for your organization
- Build out and articulate the technical roadmap and execution cadence
- Be accountable for scaling the data/AI-ML services
- Be a player-coach to a group of technical leaders
Requirements:
- A minimum of fifteen years of software industry experience
- At least five years of senior leadership experience, leading teams of 50+
- Experience building and shipping Data, AI products at scale
- Understanding of data design & modeling principles and architecture patterns
- Expertise in one or more data processing frameworks
- Experience with Semantic technologies, modeling, and related concepts
- Understanding of Open/Linked data media types
- Experience with Graph databases and graph processing languages
- A deep understanding of AI-ML, including ML frameworks
- Knowledge of data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning methodologies
- Experience in applying ML techniques in retail distribution space
- Experience with data visualization and presentation
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- A passion for staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in the Data, AI-ML space
- A Bachelor, Master, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Vision, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
Physical Demands:
- A considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding
- May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs
EEO Statement:
Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits is an Affirmative Action/EEO employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
