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DirectorFull-timeRustData ScienceAIAPI
Salary Range
$146,880 - $198,720 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Director, Data Platform Engineering to lead the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack that powers analytics, AI agents, and real-time decisioning across the company. This is a product-facing platform leadership role that will design and scale the semantic and operational layers on top of our Data Lakehouse (Databricks).
Key Responsibilities
- →Own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack
- →Design and scale the semantic and operational layers on top of our Data Lakehouse (Databricks)
- →Enforce strong governance and lineage
- →Productize capabilities for both human analysts and machine agents
- →Lead the regional and global data localization strategy within our Databricks environment
- →Partner with Data Science, AI engineering, Product, and Risk teams to ensure the platform supports rapid experimentation, intelligent automation, and high-quality decision-making
Requirements
- ✓15+ years in data or platform engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering teams in complex, multi-region environments
- ✓Proven experience architecting and scaling modern data platforms with semantic layers, metadata systems, or knowledge graphs
- ✓Strong hands-on expertise in data modeling with robust data quality, lineage, and observability practices
- ✓Experience designing and operationalizing a governed semantic layer with standardized, auditable business metric definitions
- ✓Track record of building reusable, programmatic capabilities on top of data platforms
- ✓Deep familiarity with modern lakehouse architectures, particularly within a Databricks environment
- ✓Experience implementing regional data localization and residency strategies while maintaining a unified global data model
- ✓Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and regulatory controls in multi-jurisdictional contexts
- ✓Platform-as-product mindset with experience driving adoption, improving developer experience, and operating with clear SLAs/SLOs and measurable impact
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