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Director of Engineering - Data Platform

1 month ago
United States
Executive
Director of Engineering
Software Development
CI/CD
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Formativ Group

Formativ Group

We are focused on enabling dynamic workflows, implementing the right application solutions, and ensuring your data is available when and where it’s needed.

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Description

  • Lead a distributed engineering organization spanning platform/product engineering, connectors, QA, DevOps/infra, AI implementation, data governance, and support.
  • Own delivery, quality, release discipline, technical roadmap execution, and engineering process.
  • Establish stronger engineering practices, including automated testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning.
  • Drive secure, repeatable deployments through 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.
  • Assess current team capabilities, retain strong performers, hire for gaps, and align the team structure to the roadmap.
  • Promote practical AI use across coding, review, testing, operations, and engineering productivity.
  • Raise the floor on quality and security while keeping the team moving quickly toward product delivery.
  • Serve as a trusted technical and organizational leader for engineers, product stakeholders, and executives.

Requirements

  • Engineering leadership experience running and growing teams, managing engineers, and owning delivery.
  • 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 processes, or quality practices where they did not already exist.
  • 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 using AI in your own work and across engineering teams.
  • Experience taking an early-stage product to enterprise-grade maturity, preferred.
  • Background in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government, preferred.
  • Familiarity with perimeter/on-prem deployment, lineage, metadata, graph data, or migration impact-analysis problems, preferred.
  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; no visa sponsorship is available.
  • Must reside in one of the eligible U.S. states or Washington, DC: 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.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to help shape a real, working product as it becomes a standalone business.
  • Work with practical, collaborative leaders on meaningful business and technology problems.
  • Chance to contribute ideas and help define how the company delivers for clients.
  • Close collaboration with experienced leaders, including the Chief Architect.
  • Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

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