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 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. Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery. Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day. Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content. Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people. We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day. We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play! Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law. If you need assistance or accommodation applying for a position, please reach out to helpdesk-recruiting@aristocrat.com. At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe. Our Sustainability report provides information on the progress we’ve made each year, across our four strategic sustainability pillars – Good Governance & Responsible Business, Empowering Safer Play (formerly responsible gameplay), Operational Sustainability & Climate, and People & Community. You can read more about our progress here: https://www.aristocrat.com/sustainability/