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GALE is the world’s first and only Business Agency. We bring business strategy to brand storytelling to drive enterprise value. With expertise in strategy, media, CRM, creative, performance marketing, and technology, GALE creates integrated marketing systems and campaigns that grow businesses in significant ways. Founded in 2014, the agency has since been named AdAge’s Business Transformation Agency of the Year and Adweek’s U.S. Media Agency of the Year and has been recognized for its innovative creative at the Cannes Lions.  We work with brands such as Delta, Uber, Starbucks, Chili’s, Hard Rock, MilkPEP, Diageo, Cotton, IHG and more. If you’re driven by a passion to build something great, a desire to innovate, and a commitment to achieve excellence in your craft, GALE is a great place for you!  GALE has eight offices around the world, including New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Kansas City, London, and Bengaluru. GALE embraces a hybrid, flexible workplace As an Associate Director, Technology at GALE, you will use data to guide your decisions and develop solutions to pursue some of the most exciting opportunities in the B2B SaaS space globally. You will architect, design, and lead the development and delivery of data platforms and applications with a strong focus on data engineering. You will also oversee core application and platform engineering and are expected to get hands-on with code when required and drive architecture, and reviews.   We typically use open source frameworks including Python, Django on the backend and React, NextJS on the frontend. We also extensively use cloud services like EMR, Glue, Redshift, BigQuery along with Airflow, and Spark among others for Data Engineering.  In this role, you are expected to be hands-on with this stack—comfortable diving into code, debugging complex data pipelines, and guiding the team through practical, implementation‑level decisions.   Who you are:   Experience10+ years of experience building data‑intensive Web/Mobile or SaaS products, ideally in B2B or B2C environments.   5+ years of supervisory experience, including manager‑of‑managers responsibilities.   Experience leading engineering teams of 30+ members within a matrix organization structure.   Ability to get Hands-on is a must for the role   - Data & Backend Engineering   Strong background in data engineering: designing and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouses/lakes, and analytics‑ready data models (e.g., star schema, dimensional modeling).   Very strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational/columnar/star schema database design.   Working knowledge of MySQL, Postgres, AWS Redshift, and exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.   - Cloud & Data Stack   Hands‑on experience with AWS/GCP data and analytics services such as EMR, Glue, Redshift, S3, BigQuery    Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow, and distributed processing using Spark.   - Full‑Stack & Frontend Team management experience   Experience in managing and guiding teams in building front-end and back-end applications in frameworks like React, Django or similar. Alternately proven experience in collaborating and gilding engineers and teams working in these technologies.   - Leadership & Ways of Working   Experience managing globally distributed and multicultural teams, including working with North American stakeholders and time zones.   Strong track record of delivering major releases and sustaining complex software/data systems in a geographically distributed, product engineering organization.   Driving execution in an Agile/Scrum development model.   Strong work breakdown, planning, and estimation skills, with the ability to juggle several initiatives and shift priorities as needed.   - Soft Skills   Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders and clients.   Leader