VP, Platform Engineering – Database

Role Overview

• Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for cloud enterprise data platform architecture and engineering
• Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
• Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
• Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack)
• Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
• Provide Tier 2,3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
• Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of data solution architecture, design, development and platform engineering experience
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience working within large, global financial institutions
• Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions to the cloud
• 5+ years experience of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
• 5+ years experience architecting modern data integration frameworks, data modeling, ETL/ELT workflows, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns
• 5+ years experience and proven track record leading migration of data platforms to new data centers and/or AWS

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• ETL
• Open Source

Benefits

• 401K matching
• health benefits
• employee stock options
• paid time off
• volunteer time off