Director of Engineering, Data
Core
Lead the unified Data & AI engineering function to build and govern data platforms, pipelines, and quality standards that power AI/ML products for commercial contractors.
Role type
Director of Engineering, Data (Foundational Leadership)
Builds
Unified data platforms, ingestion/transformation pipelines, ML inference infrastructure, and customer data onboarding capabilities.
Domain
Construction technology (vertical SaaS) / Data Engineering & AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Data platform architecture, team scaling (10+ engineers), cloud data warehouses/lakehouses (Snowflake/Databricks), ELT patterns (dbt), orchestration (Airflow), streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), production ML system design, data governance, B2B SaaS product delivery.
Preferred skills
Series B-D startup experience, construction tech domain knowledge.
Responsibilities
Own data platform architecture end-to-end; build scalable customer data onboarding; run production-grade data systems with monitoring/SLAs; establish data governance and access controls; hire and lead data engineering teams.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with strategic leadership