JobFrame · DATADA.DATAENGID906.M5
Data & Database Engineering · Data Engineering
M5 · M5 — Senior Director · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$188,371
$147,981 – $239,784 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
M5 · 5 of 5 in track
Median pay
$188,371
$147,981–$239,784
Level
M5
M5 · 5 of 5 in track
Super-function
technology
Demand-heat
moderate
15.2% growth
Summary
Management of data engineering teams that build and operate data pipelines, warehouses/lakehouses, and ETL/streaming systems. Distinct from Database Administration (operational DBMS uptime/tuning) and Analytics/BI Engineering (semantic layer, dashboards): this focus owns the movement, transformation, modeling, and governance of data at scale across cloud platforms using Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery, including ingestion (Fivetran), IaC (Terraform), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub), and pipeline observability (Splunk/Grafana/CloudWatch).
This level — M5 M5 — Senior Director
Leads multiple functions or a large department; drives multi-year strategy.
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