Company Alaska Airlines
The Team
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, spaneting, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
Role Summary
The Director Data Engineering & Platforms is responsible for leading the strategy, delivery and governance of enterprise data services and platforms across Alaska Air Group. This role requires a visionary leader, someone that can navigate the complex data landscape, strike a balance between building foundation and taking risks to move fast, and ensure that our data is AI ready. We are going through an exciting journey of data modernization, and you will get to lead the transformation that is tied to customer loyalty, revenue, and operations efficiency. The team is comprised of a geographically distributed workforce, including employees and contractors. This role will partner with Business and Technology leaders to drive critical business outcomes while maintaining data products that are compliant with architectural standards.
Key Duties
Strategy & Leadership
Define and execute the enterprise Data Services strategy, aligned with business objectives and technology roadmaps.
Act as a trusted advisor on how modern data platforms, analytics, and AI can unlock business value.
Serve as the primary owner of data services architecture patterns, integration standards, and platform capabilities.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment between application and data architecture.
Lead and mature the Data Architecture Council, ensuring consistent, high-quality architectural and data design decisions.
Data Engineering & Platform Leadership
Lead and scale high-performing data engineering teams responsible for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration of enterprise data.
Drive modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy data platforms to Databricks and cloud-native technologies.
Play a key role in defining and operationalizing data governance, including data quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship.
Ensure platforms are reliable, performant, secure, and cost-efficient.
People Leadership
Foster an environment that is conducive to innovation, continuous improvement, collaborative teamwork, and delivery of quality solutions.
Proactively attract, select, and retain strong performers and continually develop the team by setting clear objectives and providing coaching and meaningful feedback.
Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and strategic technology partnerships.
Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills
Required
8 years of experience in data warehousing and data management.
5 years of leadership experience, with at least 2 of those years directly leading people.
Bachelor’s degree with a focus in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
Experience with data governance, data quality, and enterprise data management frameworks.
Demonstrated ownership of budget, vendor strategy and outcome-based management experience.
Proven ability to manage and prioritize conflicting priorities from various business partners.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum age of 18.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred
Airline, transportation, or similar industry experience.
Experience leading Databricks implementation and Lakehouse architecture.
Familiarity with tools and practices for data management, CI/CD for data and analytics engineering.
Job-Specific Leadership Expectations
Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.
Create a culture where all employees feel safe and they belong.
Operate effectively in high pressure and time critical scenarios.
Salary Range
$190,500-$295,300 / year
Total Target Compensation Range (incl. bonus & equity)
$249,450 - $385,690
Salary Details
The pay range and total target compensation package listed above is the expected pay offered for this position at the start of employment. Your pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, your relevant experience/level, experience level, and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.
Note: We dont typically hire at the top of the range.
Total Rewards
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.
Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air with high priority status
Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually
Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
Generous 401k match program
Quarterly and annual bonus plans
Generous holiday and paid time off
For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.
Regulatory Information
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.
We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.
To implement this policy, we will:
(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.
Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.
Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on
2/25/2026
FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Location Seattle - Hub
L: LI-B
Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2026-18230
Category Corporate & Operations
