Senior Director, Data Engineering - Customer Data Solutions

Aristocrat is seeking an accomplished and innovative Senior Director, Data Engineering to lead the development, delivery, and ongoing improvement of our solutions that power customer-facing analytics, reports, and data feeds. This role bridges technology, product, and customer success. You will drive engineering excellence for a complex and visible data platform supporting our global gaming digital businesses. As a key leader, you will guide a geographically distributed engineering team, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant data solutions that empower our customers. Join us to be part of an ambitious team that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and flawless execution!

What You'll Do

• Define and complete the global data engineering strategy for customer-facing solutions, aligning technical completion with product vision and customer expectations.
• Partner closely with Product teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and serve as a senior technical liaison with customers and partners.
• Lead and mentor a distributed team of managers, engineers, and technical leads, encouraging collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
• Establish and enforce data engineering guidelines, standards, and processes across multiple platforms and technologies.
• Drive automation, quality, and performance across data pipelines and customer-facing systems.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of data products supporting customer data feeds, APIs, reports, and dashboards.
• Coordinate resource planning, workload distribution, and prioritization across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Collaborate deeply with Product Management, Project Management, Architecture, Data Governance & Compliance, Analytics, Data Science, and Application Engineering teams.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging experimentation and adoption of modern engineering practices.
• Ensure all engineering deliverables align with enterprise data governance, compliance, security, and privacy requirements.

Act as a visible leader who can distill complex engineering topics for non-technical collaborators and influence decisions through clarity and empathy.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics delivery, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven track record of building and leading customer-facing data products or analytics platforms.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake and modern cloud platforms, especially Azure (experience with AWS or GCP a plus).
• Strong technical proficiency with the modern data engineering stack, including tools such as dbt, Coalesce, Airflow, Fivetran, and Python.
• Familiarity with DataOps practices, including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Demonstrated success managing distributed teams across multiple geographies.
• Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills; able to work cross-functionally with executives, product leaders, and customers.
• Experience driving delivery excellence within Agile and DataOps environments, emphasizing automation and quality.
• Industry experience in gaming, digital entertainment, iGaming, or iLottery strongly preferred.
• A strategic yet hands-on leader who thrives in ambiguity, cuts through complexity, and drives clarity and execution.
  
  

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

Robust benefits package

Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen
  
  

Travel Expectations

Up to 25%

Additional Information

This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints, and obtain licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities.

Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators, and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.