Data Platform Director Financial Services
Save this job and keep your search organized
Create a free account to save jobs, create alerts and return to this listing from your dashboard.
By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.
Build financial data capabilities at Alpaca on-site, leading invoicing, analytics, regulatory reporting, and high-scale platform operations.
As Director-level Head of Data Platform, you will guide three team leads and the Platform Engineering organization. Your work supports partner invoicing, embedded analytics, product launches, compliance, and data processing at hundreds of millions of events daily. You will also guide AI and machine-learning enablement while maintaining reliable production systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure invoicing logic remains versioned, reproducible, and scalable
- Deliver partner analytics through BrokerDash, SSR, and APIs
- Coordinate data impact analysis for new product launches
- Guide enterprise AI search and LLM-powered analytics
- Own freshness, accuracy, availability, incidents, and on-call processes
Requirements:
- Eight-plus years in data engineering
- Three-plus years leading data teams
- Experience with trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reporting
- Hands-on CDC, Airflow, dbt, streaming, and reverse ETL experience
- GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform experience
Lead Alpaca’s financial data platform with operational rigor, analytics expertise, and architecture decisions grounded in engineering detail.