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Head of Engineering - Inbound Data

New York, NY, USFull-time$185k2026-07-28 → 2026-11-12

Core

Lead and scale a world-class engineering organization of 100+ data engineers, ML engineers, and platform developers while driving the transition to production-grade autonomous AI systems and enterprise-scale lakehouse architecture.

Role type

Head of Engineering (Data & AI)

Builds

Enterprise-scale lakehouse architecture on Databricks and AWS, production-grade autonomous AI systems, and RAG pipelines.

Domain

Financial services / Data Engineering / Artificial Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Strategic technical leadership, team scaling (20+ to 100+), Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, AWS cloud architecture, Apache Iceberg, autonomous AI agent deployment, RAG architecture, engineering standards, operational excellence.

Preferred skills

AWS/Databricks certifications, semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, LLMOps, model evaluation, prompt orchestration, infrastructure-as-code.

Technologies

Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, Mosaic AI), AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Lake Formation, SageMaker, Bedrock), Terraform, Apache Iceberg.

Responsibilities

Lead and scale engineering organization, provide strategic technical direction for lakehouse architecture, drive transition to autonomous AI systems, establish engineering standards and operational excellence, oversee semantic modeling and RAG strategies, foster high-performance engineering culture.

Seniority

Executive (Head of Engineering), hands-on strategic leadership