Director, Data Platform

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Develop and drive the long-term vision for enterprise data platforms and architecture, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
• Formulate and implement the data platform strategy across the data space including but not limited to big data, real time, transaction/operational, governance, observability, integration, and AIML to modernize data capabilities.
• Oversee the design and development of scalable data platform that enable different use cases across the company in order to scale and create self-serve data success.
• Lead the development and continuous evolution of scalable, robust, and business-aligned data platforms, driving the adoption of modern tools and technologies, including cloud-native services, distributed computing, and real-time data processing.
• Effectively communicate data technologies, strategies, roadmap and progress reports to executive leadership teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the company's broader vision and goals.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, translating them into actionable initiatives to drive innovation and maintain the company's market leadership.
• Build a strong engineering organization and foster solid engineering disciplines by leading by example and mentoring team members.
• Collaborate both with the data team and across engineering on technology and architectural strategy and decision making.
• Exemplify technical innovation and contribute to critical system design, implementation and operation success.
• Formulate technology and architectural decision frameworks that embed engineering disciplines
• Become an expert in the business process domain to better support and align technologies with business outcomes
• Work with the engineering leadership team to develop and execute on the company's technical and business strategy
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of changes across multiple applications/systems.
• Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions.
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand them and build and maintain the best in class software systems
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer's shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.
• One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.
• Owner's Mindset: Owner's Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 15 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
• Experience in the leadership role overseeing technical direction of data platform, technology and architecture
• Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building modern data platform, products and solutions
• Expert understanding and use of modern data technology end to end including but not limited to source system, data integration, data acquisition, data ingestion, data transformation, data aggregation, data governance, business intelligence, data warehouse, data lake, NoSQL, object storage, streaming etc.
• Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of software engineering best practices
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architecture
• Demonstrated success in building strong engineering organizations by attracting, recruiting, growing and retaining talent
• Demonstrated success in building mission-critical enterprise class data platforms that delivers business impact
• Demonstrated the ability to work with business partners, cross functional teams along with coaching and mentoring team members
• In-depth experience with building big data real time production systems that deliver business success
• Experienced in communicating and articulating technology subjects in the context of business and providing timely and clear communication
• Well versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile

Preferred:

• Financial services or FinTech industry experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Architecture and Design: Ability to implement world class solutions that meet the needs of the business and customer, and help deliver growth and innovation.
• Leadership: Be a thought leader and demonstrate leadership to mentor team members, influence change and drive for the business outcome
• Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes
• Ability to foster strong relationships across the organization
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Strong experience and understanding of how to connect the work being done and how it drives business value
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Target Compensation: A competitive base salary range from $208,7610 - $306,183. This position is eligible for an annual variable bonus of cash and equity, between 20-60%. Final compensation within the range is influenced by many factors including role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications.

Candidates who reside in the following major metropolitan areas may be eligible for a premium on top of the posted range based on their specific zone: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work

Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

To create an environment where people do their best work, we focus on the dimensions of Organizational Health. All leaders must:

• Identify the Right People by recognizing top talent
• Set Clear Expectations by managing change and directing others
• Train team members and focus on developing talent
• Performance Manage by ensuring accountability and driving results
• Create the Right Environment by establishing trust and managing conflict
• Maintain the Right Number of team members needed to build an effective team

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department

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