Director, Data Management Tooling
$197,300–$313,700 year
On-site · New York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Director of Software Engineering for Trust & Discovery: lead the metadata and discovery platform (catalog, auto-classification, stewardship workflows) and the Trust Center, delivering a single governed surface for humans and agents. Own the quality observability layer and a semantic trust layer with canonical definitions accessible via natural language. Manage a team delivering governed AI-assisted development, self-healing pipelines, and evaluation harnesses, while coordinating with CDO/CIO stakeholders on multi-year platform strategy. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience, enterprise-scale data infrastructure knowledge, and a related technical degree. Provides the opportunity to shape enterprise data governance architecture, collaborate with governance, enterprise architecture, and domain engineering teams, and work with tools like dbt and Snowflake.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional engineering experience, including significant time leading engineering organizations at the Director level or equivalent
- Experience building data infrastructure at enterprise scale — catalog, governance, quality, observability, or platform tooling
- Experience leading a team through an AI transformation that changed how the team ships, operates, and measures its own output
- A strong point of view that governance is a property of the platform, not a workflow layered on top of it
- Track record of engaging executive stakeholders (CDO, CIO level) on multi-year platform strategy
- A related technical degree required
- Hands-on familiarity with modern data tools: dbt, Snowflake, data observability platforms, or agent infrastructure built on MCP
- Experience with semantic layers, knowledge graphs, or ontology-driven data architectures
- External contributions — publishing, speaking, or open-source work — on data platform, governance, or AI infrastructure topics
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