Director, Data Platform
- Role
- Data Engineering
- Experience
- C-Level
- Employment
- Full-time
Open to US only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Senior data platform leader to build and run AHEAD’s Data Platform Team in the United States. Must be the technical authority on Snowflake, data governance, platform access/authorization, FinOps, ingestion, medallion architecture, data product publishing, and event streaming.
Core skills
Required skills
The Director, Data Platform will build and run AHEAD’s Data Platform Team— a single, unified group accountable for every governed connection the enterprise exposes into its data domains. This is a build-and-run leadership role: the Director will stand up the team, the platform, and the operating model simultaneously, then own it on an ongoing basis. The platform model centers on one governed connection per data domain — exposed as an MCP server, API, direct SQL connection, or event stream — with two backend lanes behind every connection: a read lane serving curated, AI- and analytics-ready data products, and an operational lane serving approved enterprise actions and event-driven integration back into source systems. The Director owns both lanes, the connection layer that unifies them, the access model that determines what any caller — person, application, AI agent, or integration pipeline — is permitted to do, and the event streaming infrastructure that powers domain-event-driven consumers such as Hatch. This is a hands-on architectural and operational leadership role. The Director will be the senior-most technical authority on Snowflake, data governance, platform access and authorization, FinOps, ingestion, medallion architecture, data product publishing, and event
What you'll do
- Build and run AHEAD’s Data Platform Team—a single, unified group accountable for every governed connection the enterprise exposes into its data domains.
- Stand up the team, the platform, and the operating model simultaneously, then own it on an ongoing basis.
- Own both backend lanes behind every connection: a read lane serving curated, AI- and analytics-ready data products, and an operational lane serving approved enterprise actions and event-driven integration back into source systems.
- Own the connection layer that unifies the lanes.
- Own the access model that determines what any caller — person, application, AI agent, or integration pipeline — is permitted to do.
- Own the event streaming infrastructure that powers domain-event-driven consumers such as Hatch.
What they require
- Hands-on architectural and operational leadership role.
- Senior-most technical authority on Snowflake, data governance, platform access and authorization, FinOps, ingestion, medallion architecture, data product publishing, and event streaming.