Director of Data Platform Engineering
Core
Build and own the end-to-end data platform architecture that serves the company, product features, and ML systems for a global SMB software platform.
Role type
Director of Data Platform Engineering (hands-on IC leadership)
Builds
A modern data stack (warehouse/lakehouse) providing reliable data serving, modeling, and governance for analytics and ML.
Domain
SMB software / Restaurant technology / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Data platform architecture, data modeling, SQL, Python, CI/CD, data reliability (SLAs/SLOs), data governance, team leadership
Preferred skills
Lakehouse patterns, event consumption, change data capture, semantic layer design
Technologies
Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Sigma, Hex, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster
Responsibilities
Design the path for order data migration from legacy monolith to new source of truth; establish a single semantic layer for core metrics; provide feature and serving infrastructure for ML; manage warehouse cost and performance.
Seniority
Director, hands-on engineering leadership