8+ years of progressive experience in software/platform engineering or data engineering, with experience operating at a senior leadership level.
Experience directly managing senior technical talent — staff engineers, tech leads, or senior ICs — and holding a high technical bar.
Strong working knowledge of large-scale operational (e.g., BigTable) and analytical (e.g., BigQuery) data stores and distributed systems, including experience scaling data infrastructure to handle high volume and throughput.
Experience with data ingestion pipeline architecture and change data capture (CDC) technologies (e.g., Debezium, Kafka Connect, Kafka, or similar streaming/CDC tooling).
Experience with data privacy and compliance practices, including handling data deletion / right-to-be-forgotten requests under GDPR/CCPA.
Demonstrated ability to balance platform reliability and performance work against feature and onboarding velocity.
Proven cross-functional partnership skills with product and business stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills — able to present strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership.
Preferred
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data infrastructure, including BigTable and BigQuery.
Familiarity with event streaming platforms (Kafka) and workflow/pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, or similar).
Experience building self-service tooling that accelerates data onboarding for internal teams.
What Sets You Apart
You lead through people. Your strongest technical asset is your ability to hire, develop, and empower exceptional engineers — and then get out of their way.
You connect technology to business outcomes. You see infrastructure investments not as technical projects but as enablers of speed, trust, and better decisions across the company.
You are a systems thinker. You see the connections between platform architecture, team structure, process design, and stakeholder experience — and you optimize across all four.
You are decisive under ambiguity. Competing priorities, legacy systems, organizational change, and imperfect information don't paralyze you — they sharpen your focus.
You balance vision with pragmatism. You can articulate a bold multi-year direction and then break it into quarterly deliverables your team can execute with confidence.
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You build bridges. Engineering, analytics, security, and business teams all see you as someone who understands their world and advocates for shared outcomes.
How We Work
Be Relentless. We outpace and outcompete. We are smart, clever, and resourceful in everything we do.
Be Entrepreneurs. We hustle, move fast, take ownership, and make decisions. We are accountable and resilient.
Be Experts. We understand our customers deeply and demand domain expertise from everyone.
Be Innovators. We innovate not just in product, but in how we operate — driving outcomes no one thought were possible.
Be a Team. We are one team, working together to win. We collaborate and lean in to help each other.
ZoomInfo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other personal characteristic protected by law.
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About us:
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.
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