Director of Engineering - Data Platform

2 days, 19 hours ago
Executive
Software Development
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.

Internet Software & Services

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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