Director Data Platform Jobs in Spring, TX (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Crescent Energy is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns-driven growth strategy. The Data Platform Manager is responsible for the leadership, delivery, reliability, and continuous evolution of the enterprise data platform, overseeing data engineers and ensuring the organization's data ecosystem supports enterprise reporting, analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operational management of the enterprise data platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities and data strategy objectives.
• Establish standards and operating models that promote consistency and long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve data accessibility, automation, and business value.
• Lead the Data Engineering function responsible for the development and operation of enterprise data pipelines and integration services.
• Ensure data pipelines are reliable, scalable, and capable of supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, automation, and AI use cases.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for data integration, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
• Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, and modern data engineering practices to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Lead the Data Architecture and Database Administration functions, ensuring alignment with enterprise data standards and governance objectives.
• Support data quality, metadata management, lineage, and stewardship initiatives that improve trust and transparency across enterprise data assets.
• Ensure platform services meet business requirements for availability, recoverability, security, and compliance.
• Establish operational metrics and service-level objectives that drive continuous improvement and platform reliability.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Data Engineers, Data Architects, and Database Administrators.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Build strong partnerships with business leaders, technology teams, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of data platform capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Director of Data & Analytics on platform strategy, technology investments, and organizational priorities.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform management, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams in enterprise data environments.
• Proven experience building and operating cloud-based data platforms, with extensive expertise in Snowflake.
• Experience leading teams responsible for data engineering, architecture, platform operations, and database administration.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture, administration, performance optimization, security, and governance.
• Strong understanding of oil and gas data domains (e.g., wells, completions, SCADA, production volumes, reserves, HSE).
• Strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, ETL/ELT frameworks, cloud data platforms, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience with SQL, dbt, Fivetran, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native data technologies.
• Demonstrated success leading technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale data initiatives.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
Preferred:
• Industry experience in upstream oil and gas is preferred, ideally with exposure to drilling, production operations, reserves, and regulatory reporting.
Company:
Crescent Energy is an energy company delivering value for shareholders through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Houston, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.