Director, Data Management and Data Platforms

# Director, Data Management and Data Platforms Apply
** Job#: 8255
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* Job Description:

**** DIRECTOR, DATA MANAGEMENT & DATA PLATFORMS*
* ** WHO WE ARE
** Everforth Apex Systems is a leading global technology and digital engineering firm dedicated to helping organizations adapt, innovate, and thrive in a world of constant change. Leveraging deep industry insights and proven expertise, we deliver end-to-end solutions that accelerate time-to-value and realize our clients’ digital visions across commercial and federal sectors.
Our comprehensive solution portfolio spans AI & data, cloud and infrastructure, digital engineering, customer experience, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms, application development, strategy, transformation, and managed services. Powered by proprietary assets, accelerators, and strong alliances with cutting-edge technology partners—including Adobe, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more—we turn complexity into progress and measurable business outcomes.
With a presence in over 70 markets across North America, Europe, and India, Everforth Apex Systems innovates alongside our customers, building and deploying tailored artificial intelligence solutions to enhance business value and improve customer experiences. As part of the commercial segment of Everforth, we are committed to driving the next wave of global IT services and digital transformation.  
** JOB DESCRIPTION
** The Director, Data Management & Data Platforms owns the full breadth of IT data management at Apex: the established enterprise data environment (SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, SSIS/ETL, middleware and reporting), the Databricks lakehouse that is emerging as our central data product, and the team that operates our Data
360 master data management product. The Director is accountable for the health, security, quality, cost and scalability of every data platform in the portfolio, and for setting the multi-year data platform strategy, including evaluation of Snowflake and other technologies for potential future adoption.  This is a hands-on leadership role. The Director leads a team consisting primarily of offshore vendor resources — currently led day-to-day by manager-level personnel employed by the vendor — and senior engineers, partners with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application and Business Intelligence teams, and represents the data platform roadmap to senior IT and business leadership.

Deep, practical Databricks expertise is the primary technical requirement; the ability to apply consistent disciplines of governance, quality, architecture, operations, Dev Ops, cost management and scalability across all platforms is the primary leadership requirement.  

Key Responsibilities
* ** Data Platform Strategy & Roadmap**  + Define and maintain the enterprise data platform strategy and 1–3 year roadmap covering the existing SQL Server/Oracle/Azure SQL estate, Databricks, Data
360 and future platforms.  + Lead the evaluation of Snowflake and other emerging platforms: build the business case, define selection criteria, run proofs of concept, and recommend adopt / defer / decline decisions to IT leadership.  + Set platform standards that determine which workloads belong on which platform, and steer the rationalization of legacy components as workloads migrate.  + Align data roadmaps with senior management, application owners and BI stakeholders;

communicate priorities, trade-offs and progress to executive audiences.
* ** Databricks Lakehouse (core platform)**  + Own the Databricks environment end to end: workspace and Unity Catalog design, compute policies, Delta Lake standards, medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture, ingestion patterns and serving layers.  + Establish the engineering standards for…