8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220CarMax, the way your career should be! About this job The Director of Data Engineering and Platform is a critical role for building the right data foundation, frameworks, standards, and platforms so that data and analytics engineering solutions and teams can rapidly scale and adjust based on business priorities. In this role, you will lead a team of product managers, solution architects, managers, data engineers, and database administrators to define, design, and deliver data engineering solutions EDL/EDW, enterprise database systems, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, QA automation, and ML Ops solutions that serve critical business ops, sales strategy, logistics, and other business lines. This role is critical to provide scalable, reliable, and real-time data to enable the best customer and associate experience. You will do strategic planning, stakeholder management, and roadmap and vision definition to drive engineering excellence while growing and motivating your associates. You will lead large teams FTEs and contractors with a solid track record of scaling cloud solutions and running data and analytics operations 24x7. You will also produce documentation and presentations for stakeholders and leadership, lead data training sessions, and partner with third-party vendors to facilitate data-sharing agreements and manage consulting partners. This position is ideal for individuals with high accountability, a record of developing future leaders, strong analytical and financial skills, a clear communication style, and a partnership mentality. The individual must be comfortable in a dynamic environment, able to turn facts into recommendations, and able to influence cross-functional business partners and provide the Technology point of view on complex business issues to senior management, team members, and partners. What you will do – Essential Responsibilities Strategic planning and re
