Director of Engineering - Data Platform
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FormativGroupData Platform
Candidates must reside in one of the following U.S. states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI, and Washington DCFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceQACI/CDDevOpsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Engineering leadership experience; you have run and grown teams, managed engineers, owned delivery, and shipped real product.
- Hands-on technical depth in data platforms, metadata, backend systems, or platform engineering.
- Experience building or rebuilding an engineering function from the ground up, especially in a startup or early-stage environment.
- Experience installing testing, QA, CI/CD, release process, or quality practices.
- Experience leading distributed or offshore engineering teams across time zones.
- Security and compliance literacy for regulated buyers, including SOC 2, audit logging, SSO, data security, or secure deployment.
- Strong AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in your own work and across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed engineering team across platform/product engineering, connectors, QA, DevOps/infra, AI implementation, data governance, and support.
- Own delivery, quality, release discipline, and execution of the technical roadmap.
- Install engineering discipline where it's thin: automated testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning.
- Drive repeatable, perimeter-safe deployments, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, secure deployment, and SOC 2 readiness.
- Partner with the Chief Architect on the connector framework, canonical metadata model, architecture decisions, and product IP.
- Build the team: assess current talent, retain the strong, hire the gaps, and align the team plan to the roadmap.
- Push practical AI use across coding, review, testing, ops, and engineering productivity.
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