Head of Engineering - Data Distribution
Core
Lead and scale a large, multi-disciplinary engineering organization of 50+ data engineers, ML engineers, and platform developers while driving enterprise data management, governance, and autonomous AI system development.
Role type
Head of Engineering (Data Distribution)
Builds
Enterprise data management and governance systems, production-grade autonomous AI systems, and zero-copy multi-platform lakehouse architectures.
Domain
Financial services / Enterprise Data & AI
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic architecture design, team scaling and management, data governance and lineage automation, cloud data platform leadership, autonomous AI system development, lakehouse architecture, cross-functional partnership
Preferred skills
AI/ML platform deployment, cloud governance and cost optimization, enterprise data governance frameworks, multi-cloud strategy
Technologies
Databricks Unity Catalog, Databricks Mosaic AI, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, AWS (S3, Glue, Lake Formation, EMR), data.world
Responsibilities
Lead and scale a large, multi-disciplinary engineering organization of 50+ data engineers, ML engineers, and platform developers; Drive the strategic architecture and implementation of enterprise data management and governance; Oversee the development of production-grade autonomous AI systems; Guide the technical strategy for zero-copy, multi-platform lakehouse architecture; Partner with Product, Security, and executive leadership to translate business requirements into engineering roadmaps; Champion organizational transformation initiatives.
Seniority
Executive (Head of Engineering), managing managers and staff-level engineers
