McLane is building a cloud-native lakehouse on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery) as the single source of truth for analytics and AI/ML across a supply chain business managing 50,000+ SKUs for the nation's leading retailers and restaurants. We're hiring a Senior Director, Data Engineering & Analytics to lead that build end to end architecture, migration, governance, and team. This is a hybrid position which will require the candidate to report and work from the office at least three days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX or Austin, TX. Benefits you can count on: • Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance. • Paid time off begins day one. • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days. • Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more! What You'll Do • Own the data platform roadmap - architect and lead the migration from legacy on-prem warehousing to a modern GCP/BigQuery lakehouse. • Build a governed BI architecture in Looker with a certified semantic layer and conversational, self-service analytics. • Bring AI copilots and agentic automation into the engineering practice to raise velocity and reliability. • Build the AI/ML data foundation - ML-ready datasets and feature engineering - partnering with data science to scale production models. • Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing data engineering and analytics organization. What We're Looking For • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems. • 10+ years in data engineering or architecture, including 6+ years leading enterprise data platform teams. • Deep hands-on expertise with cloud data platforms (GCP/BigQuery preferred; Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks). • A track record shipping a cloud data lakehouse or modern data platform at enterprise scale. • Experience with modern BI/semantic layers (Looker or Power BI) and governed self-service reporting. • Strong DataOps fundamentals and a history of leading legacy-to-cloud migrations with executive-level communication. Fit the following? We want you here! • Teamwork oriented • Organized • Problem solver • Detailed Our roadmap. Our story. We've been forging our path as a leader in the distribution industry since 1894. Building an expansive nationwide network of team members for 130+ years has allowed us to stay agile for our clients across the restaurant, retail, and e-commerce industries. We look to the future and are ready to continue making industry-defining moves by embracing the newest technology into our practices, continuing team member training, and emphasizing our people-centered culture.