Director, Data & Analytics Engineering

Job description

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.
We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:

Location: Remote
Department: Engineering
Level: Senior Leadership
Employment Type: Full-time
AI-Forward Role

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Data & Analytics Engineering to lead our data platform teams and power decision-making across the company. In this senior leadership position, you will own and evolve our end-to-end data platform—from ingestion and transformation to analytics layers that business teams rely on daily. You’ll oversee Data Engineering (infrastructure, pipelines, reliability) and Analytics Engineering (data models, metrics, self-serve tooling), while championing an AI-first approach to the way we build, operate, and innovate.

Four Pillars of This Role

• Platform Leadership: Own the architecture and roadmap for the modern data stack, from source systems through to consumption layers.

• Team Building: Hire, grow, and inspire both data engineers and analytics engineers, fostering a culture of quality, curiosity, and ownership.

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