Managing Director, Data Platforms, Architecture, & Operations

About the Role -

Essential Responsibilities

• Data & Platform Architecture
• Strategic Vision: Define and execute the overarching data and platform architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise business objectives and technology transformation goals.
• Modernization & Migration: Lead large-scale data platform migrations and modernization efforts (e.g., migrating legacy or alternative cloud platforms to GCP).
• Scalable Design: Design robust, highly scalable, and distributed data architectures that support advanced analytics, AI-first engineering, and high-volume data processing.
• Cloud Platforms & Operations (GCP & Databricks)
• Platform Leadership: Oversee the administration, optimization, and scaling of large enterprise cloud environments, with a primary focus on GCP and Databricks.
• Operational Excellence: Drive the Ops strategy (DataOps/MLOps), ensuring high availability, performance tuning, reliability, and proactive monitoring of critical data pipelines and platforms.
• Resource & Vendor Management: Manage cloud resource consumption, optimize costs, and oversee vendor performance and SLA adherence.
• Secure By Design
• Proactive Security: Embed "Secure By Design" methodologies across all data platforms, architectures, and engineering lifecycles.
• Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce robust data governance, access controls, and inherited control frameworks to ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory standards.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and mitigate infrastructure and data security risks within cloud environments.
• Data Engineering & Tooling
• Tooling Strategy: Evaluate, select, and implement best-in-class data engineering tools and frameworks to accelerate development and improve pipeline efficiency.
• Engineering Leadership: Guide the development of complex data pipelines, data ingestion frameworks, and structured data stores.
• Workforce Evolution: Champion the upskilling and continuous development of the engineering workforce, building high-performing PODs capable of delivering AI and data foundation initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Cloud Expertise: Proven, hands-on architectural and operational expertise in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Databricks.
• Scale: Demonstrated success in managing, scaling, and migrating large-scale cloud data platforms and distributed systems.
• Security Acumen: Deep understanding of cloud security protocols, identity and access management (IAM), and data protection strategies (Secure By Design).
• Technical Breadth: Strong background in modern data engineering stacks, DataOps methodologies, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Leadership: Exceptional leadership and program management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical roadmaps to executive stakeholders and manage cross-functional, highly technical teams.

Minimum Education

Minimum Experience

Preferred Qualifications

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