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Our mission is to create the Experience of a Lifetime for our employees, so they can, in turn, create the Experience of a Lifetime for our guests. We own and operate the most renowned destination resorts in the world as well as regional and local ski areas outside major cities, and connect them all through one unrivaled network. We are looking for ambitious leaders, innovators and creators to join our talented team. If you’re ready to pursue your fullest potential, we want to get to know you!

Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date, or until the position is filled (whichever is first).

Job Summary:

Vail Resorts is looking for an accomplished technical leader to lead our Enterprise Data Engineering practice as Director of Data Engineering. This individual will lead the team that is responsible for supplying performant data and platform engineering solutions to the enterprise with a focus on marketing technology, analytics, and next generation technologies. This leader should have a proven track record of leading teams to deliver modern and performant data and analytics infrastructure as well as experience in developing architectures to bring that data to life for our partners and platforms.

This role sits within the Marketing Technology organization reporting the Sr. Director of Enterprise Data Engineering and Enablement, and has Data Engineering, QA, and Governance functions reporting into it.

To succeed in this role, you must have a demonstrated history and passion for building high performing teams and elevating talent to scale their and the team’s impact. Vail is a data-driven company and this role needs to play a key part in supporting key company strategies, platforms, and growth objectives.

Why this role is special:

• Vail Resorts is an incredibly fast-growing company at the forefront of the Travel and Tourism industry – In 2024 Vail Resorts was named one of the worlds most innovative companies by Fast Company

• Leveraging data and analytics is a core pillar of Vail Resorts’ strategy moving forward – a critical driver of our success leading to a strong willingness to invest

• We are a data-driven business with a proprietary guest database unmatched by any other company in the industry – a great foundation to continue to drive incremental value through modern and performant data infrastructure

• The opportunity to lead our Data Engineering capabilities to the next level – we are leading the adoption of data and cloud technologies to continue to enhance our impact and speed to market

• Direct exposure to senior leaders of the business on the company’s biggest initiatives – a unique opportunity to team with our business leadership to reimagine analytics

Key Role Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers, QA, and governance functions to deliver on company goals and priorities

• Build deep integrations across business functions and the IT organization to deliver outsized value cross-functionally

• Grow and develop leaders and individual contributors through inclusion, intentional succession planning, and seeking opportunities to elevate talent to produce a high performing team

• Bring innovation in key technologies across the enterprise data lake, event driven architectures, and emerging technologies through out-front planning and integration with partner and stakeholder teams

• Seek opportunities to maximize delivery speed and quality by balancing workloads across internal, contractor, or offshore engineering teams

• Deliver on enterprise capital initiatives by launching and expanding our enterprise data lake and supporting key business initiatives

• Seek opportunities to responsibly and sustainably bring new and emerging cloud technologies to market with a focus on resource efficiency and scale

• Architect efficient and scalable event-driven solutions that ensure our data is available where it is needed to impact the guest or employee experience

• Translating business needs into data projects and data projects into business implications

• Bring best-in-class governance, monitoring, and proactive remediation techniques and policies to ensure the business runs smoothly

• Educating the company in data literacy and driving efforts to collect, manage, and use internal and external data to drive operational efficiency and better decision-making

Background

• Demonstrated experience leading teams to delivery data engineering, pipelining, and automation technologies

• Databricks, Snowflake or other performant data curation and enablement platforms

• Event-drive architectures and data pipelining

• Demonstrated experience in a team leadership role operating as a producer of talent

• Proven ability to pick up new technologies and solutions as they emerge and ability to socialize and implement those solutions in a fast-paced environment

• Proven data literacy:

• The ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options.

• The ability to translate among the languages used by executive, business, IT and data scientist stakeholders.

• Significant experience with cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or AWS

• Managed infrastructure / IaC with tools like Terraform

• IAM and other access management for users or services

• Proficiency in working across multiple teams and departments as a collaborator and advisor to achieve a common goal

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure alignment

• Experience leading data engineering and software engineering at scale with cloud-native technologies

• SDLC / CICD for rapid a reliable deployment

• Automation and serverless deployment

• API management and real time data augmentation and retrieval

• Experience delivering quality technology solutions with distributed teams

• Familiarity with Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI technologies

The expected Total Compensation for this role is $165000 - $190000 + annual bonus + equity. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.

Job Benefits

• Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons

• MORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Employee Assistance Program

• Excellent training and professional development

Full Time roles are eligible for the above, plus:

• Health Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)

• Free ski passes for dependents

• Critical Illness and Accident plans

Vail Resorts offers a ‘Hybrid’ work environment where employees living within 50 miles of the Broomfield office work on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and have flexibility to work off-site on Mondays and Fridays. Employees living outside of a commutable distance can work remotely from British Columbia, Washington D.C., and the 16 U.S. states* in which we currently operate. This includes: California, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Please note that the ability to work in person or off-site, and the particulars related to such work, are subject to change at any time; and, accordingly, the Company reserves the right to change its policies and/or require in-person/in-office work or off-site work at any time in its sole discretion.

Vail Resorts is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID 501551

Reference Date: 05/20/2024

Job Code Function: Applications

Job Type: Hybrid- Remote