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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
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As Senior Director, Data Engineering - Slack, you will lead a forty-person organization responsible for transforming the data engineering stack into a foundation for agentic analytics and development. You will oversee the full data engineering lifecycle, including infrastructure, ingestion, data products, semantic layers, and AI-facing services. Your primary mission is to evolve the platform from traditional analytics into a machine-readable knowledge base that supports autonomous AI agents. Key responsibilities include architecting data APIs, MCP servers, and real-time streaming infrastructure while establishing LLM-aware observability using OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions. You will manage the roadmap for warehouse reliability, cost optimization, and governance while partnering with Data Science teams. The role requires expertise in warehouse infrastructure, streaming ingestion, semantic layers, and tools like Airflow to build a robust substrate for both human analysts and AI agents.
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