Director-Real-TimeDataServicesEngineering

## About the Role The Director of Real-Time Data Services Engineering will design and execute strategies that enable the organization to harness streaming and event-driven data across the full fashion retail value chain — from browse and purchase signals to inventory movement and fulfillment events. This role reports into the Sr. Directors, Data Platform Engineering and owns the enterprise real-time data backbone, delivering low-latency, high-availability data services that power personalization, demand sensing, omnichannel operations, and live customer experiences. This leader will work in close partnership with merchandising technology, digital product, supply chain engineering, and marketing data teams to ensure the right data reaches the right systems at the speed the business demands. ## What You'll Do * Significant relevant experience in data engineering or platform engineering, with meaningful concentration in real-time or streaming data infrastructure * Strong experience delivering real-time data solutions in fashion, apparel, or specialty retail environments — including seasonal demand patterns, size/color complexity, and omnichannel fulfillment * Deep expertise in stream processing technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, or equivalent * Hands-on experience building and operation Operational Data Stores (ODS) and other data product serving mechanisms * Hands-on experience with change data capture (CDC), event-driven microservices, and operational data stores supporting high-frequency retail transactions * Experience operationalizing data quality, pipeline observability, and SLA enforcement for streaming workloads in production * Strong background in cloud-native data stacks (Azure, GCP, or AWS) with focus on real-time consumption patterns including event hubs, pub/sub systems, and live data APIs * Experience integrating real-time data platforms with retail-specific systems including OMS, POS, WMS, CDP, and marketing activation plat