Head of Data Platform
Core
Leads the organization's foundational data capability, operating the Data Platform as a product to ingest, model, govern, and serve data to internal and external customers for investment and risk management decisions.
Role type
Senior IC Head of Data Platform (Strategic Leadership)
Builds
A strategic, productized data platform (Snowflake-based) enabling data sharing, curated data products, and foundational capabilities for global commodity markets.
Domain
Commodity markets (metals, forest products, agriculture, carbon) / Cloud Data Warehousing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Strategic leadership, product mindset, commercial fluency, team building, stakeholder management, vendor management, data platform architecture, ELT patterns, semantic modelling, governance, data sharing patterns.
Preferred skills
AI/ML use case familiarity (feature engineering, embeddings), legal/contractual knowledge for data sales.
Technologies
Snowflake, Databricks, ELT tools, semantic modelling tools, governance tooling.
Responsibilities
Define multi-year strategy for the Data Platform and Snowflake implementation; own direct monetization and external data product delivery; build and lead a high-performing data engineering team; manage strategic vendor relationships; represent the platform to senior stakeholders and external customers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic scope
