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Brandon Hoeft

Critic · DISC type C
Director, Data Engineering at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Brandon is the Director of Data Engineering at OCC, where he enhances analytics platforms for financial risk management. His expertise spans building enterprise data warehouses and managing machine learning practices for financial regulators. He holds a Masters degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelors from Loyola University Chicago.

Outside of his core role, Brandon is committed to continuous professional development, recently earning a new certification in data engineering. He has a philosophical perspective on career growth, believing in the freedom of decoupling ones professional identity from specific technologies.

He considers dbt (data build tool) the most motivating, SQL-based technology he has learned in the data stack in the past couple of years.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Director, Data Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Personality Overview

How Brandon shows up

Critic
Objective Thinker
ROI Driven

They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms. They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions. They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often.

Priorities

Topics Brandon cares about

Data Modeling
Believes business-embraced data models are more impactful than tech stacks for accelerating BI. He is hiring engineers to build a semantic layer for OCC's core business.
DataOps Practices
He has experience building DataOps practices from the ground up, implementing git, CI, unit testing, and data quality testing where they previously did not exist.
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Career

Work history

9-2025
Director, Data Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
3-2023 - 8-2025
Principal, Data Analytics Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
5-2019 - 3-2023
Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
7-2018 - 5-2019
Manager, Data Science; Risk Management Group
National Futures Association
8-2014 - 6-2018
Data Scientist, Risk Management Group
National Futures Association
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2014 - 2018
Master of Science (M.S.)
Northwestern University
2006 - 2010
Bachelor’s Degree
Loyola University Chicago
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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