Director of Data and Analytics

“Let goodness, fairness, and most importantly, love prevails in business; profits will inevitably follow.” – NK Chaudhary, founder

What we do for our team members:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Company Paid Holidays, PTO, Parental Involvement Leave, Maternity/Paternity Leave, EAP, No Cost Employee Medical Plan, Vision, Dental, and Company Paid Life Insurance. We also include a match on retirement (401K/Roth).
• Career Development: We're committed to providing growth for career development within the company, supporting our team members' aspirations with a well-defined succession plan that includes a variety of training and development opportunities.
• Pet-Friendly Workplace: We welcome your furry friends! Our 'Bring Your Dogs to Work' policy creates a pet-friendly atmosphere, allowing our team members to enjoy the companionship of their dogs during the workday.
• Wellness Support: Not only do we support an active lifestyle with our on-site basketball court and yoga studio, but we host quarterly mental health events to assist in creating a well-rounded work-life harmony for our team members.
• Sustainability Efforts: Reuse, Renew, and Refresh by joining our Green Team! Responsible for harvesting from the organic community garden, donating goods to local pet shelters and schools, creating educational workshops, leading nature walks, and much more, they promote well-being through sustainable practices.

Our Values

Empowerment • Inclusiveness • Responsibility • Progressive

Learn more about our company story here: https://www.jaipurliving.com/the-jaipur-living-story

The Jaipur Rugs Foundation

Since 2004, the Jaipur Rugs Foundation has worked to improve the lives of rug-weaving artisans in India. This is done through training, skills development, and social interventions. By focusing on the ideas and solutions that create social value, the Foundation supports the dignity and heritage of these traditional artisans, believing that healthy and sustainable communities are key to the survival of traditional rug weaving. Jaipur Living has made ethical and socially conscious global citizenship the foundation of its business. Through social initiatives and the Jaipur Rugs Foundation, the company supports a supplier ecosystem without a middleman of more than 40,000 artisans in 700 villages across India by providing them with a livable wage, access to health care, leadership education, and opportunities for personal growth and development. Combining time-honored techniques and of-the-moment trends, every Jaipur Living product is as ethically and responsibly made as it is beautiful.

Learn more about the Jaipur Rugs Foundation here: https://www.jaipurrugs.org/

Overview

We are a fast-growing, design-led B2B home décor and textiles brand with big ambitions. Over the last 12 months, we have revolutionized our technical foundation, investing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (F&O) and a Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. We are now looking for a seasoned leader to refine our existing infrastructure, optimize our end-to-end data workflows, and bridge the gap between "raw data" and "reliable business intelligence."

This role demands a strong balance of technical depth and operational management. While you must possess expert-level proficiency in data engineering, specifically within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem and modern data platforms, we also need a leader who is experienced in analytics, data visualization, BI, and translating business needs into analytical solutions. You will be responsible for defining and executing an outcome-based Data & Analytics strategy, building and developing a global team of data engineers, BI developers, and data analysts, and ensuring the company has trusted, scalable, and decision-ready data at every level of the organization. The ideal candidate is a Fabric-certified or Fabric-trained leader, an exceptional communicator, and a proven people manager who can balance hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Management & Outcome-Based Delivery

• Tactical Roadmap: Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap that aligns data engineering, BI, and advanced insights with business priorities (e.g., inventory efficiency, margin protection, and growth).
• Process Standardization: Define what “good” looks like for data reliability, documentation, insight quality, and business impact
• Baseline Maturity: Shift the organization from ad-hoc reporting to repeatable, trusted, decision-ready data products
• Advance Automation: Assess the current-state landscape and define a clear path from foundational reporting to automated, predictive analytics.
• Executive Communication: Serve as the single point of accountability for all data and analytics capabilities, translating technical progress into business-relevant implications across the organization

Infrastructure Optimization & Fabric Engineering

• Systemic Optimization: Lead the audit and refinement of the existing Fabric environment (Lakehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks) to improve overall performance, stability, and refresh reliability
• Engineering Standards: Set the "gold standard" for architecture, data modeling, testing, and deployment (CI/CD), ensuring the stack is hardened for enterprise-scale growth
• Reduce Manual Effort: Minimize operational risk by standardizing pipelines, refresh processes, and metric calculations
• Automation & Reliability: Systematically identify and eliminate manual reporting and spreadsheet-based workflows through robust automation in PySpark and Fabric
• Proactive Governance: Establish monitoring, alerting, and exception-handling processes to manage data quality and refresh failures before they impact the business

Analytics & Decision Enablement

• High-Quality BI Delivery: Oversee the design and delivery of visually appealing Power BI dashboards that simplify complexity and adhere to our design-led brand standards
• Metric Governance: Ensure KPI definitions and reporting logic are consistent across the company, acting as the arbiter of "the truth" for business metrics
• Advanced Analytics: Identify and operationalize high-value use cases for predictive analytics (e.g., demand forecasting, product lifecycle analysis) as platform maturity increases
• Business Translation: Partner with business leaders to translate business requirements into scalable, intuitive, impactful analytics solutions
• Business Evolution: Lead the transition from descriptive and diagnostic reporting to forward-looking insights that support planning and decision-making

Global Team Leadership & Talent Development

• People Leadership: Directly lead and develop a 3–5 person global team (primarily based in India), establishing clear roles, accountability, and a high-performance culture
• Skill Development: Create career paths and skill-development plans for engineers and analysts to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery
• Operating Model: Build a scalable offshore capability that delivers at speed while maintaining rigorous standards for code quality and documentation

Skills & Minimum Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• 10 years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or BI, with director-level scope or equivalent ownership
• Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks, semantic models)
• Fabric certification or formal Fabric training strongly preferred
• Strong experience with PySpark and Spark-based transformations
• Strong understanding of Azure data services and modern data architectures
• Exceptional dashboard-development skills using Power BI; portfolio-quality experience preferred
• Strong understanding of data storytelling, executive-ready visualization, and intuitive UI/UX design
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into analytical products
• Proven experience leading and developing global / offshore teams
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence at senior levels
• Experience supporting ERP-driven environments; Dynamics 365 preferred
• Ability to juggle strategy, execution, and stakeholder communication simultaneously

Success Measures (First 12–18 Months)

• Strategy Execution: An outcome-based Data & Analytics strategy that is fully operational and tied to business outcomes
• Optimized Infrastructure: A trusted, scalable Fabric platform with significantly reduced manual reporting and 99% data availability
• Dashboard Adoption: A suite of high-quality dashboards used daily and weekly by business leaders to drive decision-making
• Team Growth: A high-performing global team with a track record of delivering complex analytics products with speed and precision

Physical Requirements:

• Remaining in a seated position for long periods of time
• Standing is to remain on one’s feet in an upright position without moving about
• The ability to alternate between sitting and standing is present when a worker has the flexibility to choose between sitting or standing as needed when this need cannot be accommodated by schedules breaks and/or lunch period
• Lifting and transporting items that could weight up to 25 pounds
• Entering text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work to impart oral information to clients and talent and convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately and quickly
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds such as in person and telephone
• Clarity of vision to see computer screens and workspace