Director of Engineering - Data Platform

Lead the engineering function behind an early-stage, perimeter-safe data lineage and migration impact-analysis platform for regulated enterprises.

Description

We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead and grow the engineering organization behind a working product that is becoming a standalone business. This is a build-focused role where you will own delivery, quality, security readiness, engineering process, and execution of the technical roadmap, partnering closely with the Chief Architect.

What You'll Work On

• 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.
• Implement 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 on the connector framework, canonical metadata model, architecture decisions, and product IP.
• Assess current talent, retain strong contributors, hire to fill gaps, and align the team to the roadmap.
• Promote practical AI usage across coding, review, testing, operations, and engineering productivity.

What You'll Bring

• Experience leading and growing engineering teams, owning delivery, and shipping products.
• Hands-on technical depth in data platforms, metadata, backend systems, or platform engineering.
• Experience building or rebuilding engineering functions in startup or early-stage environments.
• Experience implementing testing, QA, CI/CD, and release practices.
• Experience leading distributed or offshore teams.
• Security and compliance literacy for regulated environments, including SOC 2, audit logging, SSO, data security, and secure deployment.
• Strong AI fluency with practical application across engineering workflows.

How You Work

• Player-coach mindset with ability to go deep technically and ship pragmatically.
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information and defining direction.
• Ability to improve quality, process, and security without slowing momentum.

Bonus Points

• Experience maturing early-stage products to enterprise-grade.
• Background in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government.
• Familiarity with perimeter or on-prem deployment, lineage, metadata, graph data, or migration impact-analysis.

What Success Looks Like

• Clear team ownership and strong delivery rhythm with a credible roadmap-to-release model.
• Testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning in place without slowing product momentum.
• Progress toward enterprise-grade readiness for regulated buyers.
• Trusted partnership with the Chief Architect and credible leadership across engineering and executive stakeholders.

Additional Requirements

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. (no visa sponsorship available).
• 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, or Washington DC.