Hiring: Associate Director, Data Engineering Company: Chewy Location: Bellevue, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 11:34:51 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Kafka, Snowflake, dbt About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience building enterprise data systems, platforms, or products, including significant experience leading managers and multi-team organizations. Required Skills: •Chewy is reimagining enterprise data for an AI-first future—one where engineers build alongside AI, data platforms actively prevent and resolve problems, and people and AI agents can discover, understand, and safely use trusted data. •We are seeking an Associate Director of Data Engineering to lead Foundational Data within Enterprise Data Systems. You will lead managers and engineering teams responsible for creating the authoritative, reusable data foundations behind Chewy’s data products, analytics, automation, and AI experiences. •This role is not about applying AI to a traditional data-engineering model. You will help redesign that model: embedding AI throughout development and operations, making data understandable to machines as well as people, and replacing fragmented, manual processes with intelligent and increasingly autonomous experiences. •Define the strategy and roadmap for Chewy’s foundational data, creating authoritative and reusable representations of the company’s most important business entities, events, and relationships. •Reinvent how data work gets done by embedding AI throughout design, development, testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response. •Make trusted data easy for people and AI agents to discover, understand, and safely use through semantic context, machine-readable metadata, lineage, quality signals, and clear access controls. •Create AI-first experiences that guide users to the right data, explain its meaning and quality, recommend next actions, and automate routine work with appropriate guardrails. •Move data quality from reactive monitoring toward proactive detection, prevention, and increasingly automated resolution. Compensation: •$154,000 - $265,000 / year •In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!