Senior Vice President, Global Head of Data Platforms & Engineering

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The Global Head of Data Platforms & Engineering will own the end-to-end strategy, delivery, and operation of our enterprise data platforms—spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and activation—so product, analytics, AI/ML, and business teams can reliably build data powered experiences at global scale. This executive will define the multi-year platform roadmap, establish world class engineering and SRE practices, and lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for secure, resilient, cost-efficient data platforms across public cloud(s).

This role is accountable for platform availability, reliability, data quality, time to value for new capabilities, and cloud cost efficiency, partnering closely with Product, Security, Compliance, and Finance.

• Define a multi-year strategy and architecture for enterprise data platforms (e.g., batch/streaming ingestion, orchestration, data governance, metadata, observability, ML feature stores), balancing build vs. buy and aligning with business priorities.
• Set standards for APIs, schemas, contracts, and data product/platform interoperability, enabling self-serve capabilities for internal builders.
• Institutionalize modern engineering practices to deliver highly available, resilient, observable platforms.
• Own platform and continuous improvement of availability, performance, reliability, and cost. Scope reflects our established platform patterns emphasizing availability, resiliency, and automation.
• Lead incident, change, release, and problem management processes for data platforms across cloud environments (e.g., GCP, AWS), ensuring timely response and communications during major incidents.
• Prioritize and deliver platform capabilities that accelerate product and analytics teams - e.g., real time data, governed sharing and AI/ML enablement.
• Establish and run portfolio governance with clear OKRs, capacity planning, and outcome focused metrics.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, Security and Legal to embed controls and continuously improve data quality through platform level controls and monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and certifications as applicable to business lines.
• Build, lead, and develop a diverse, world class global team. Foster a culture of delivery, learning, motivation and engineering craftsmanship, mentor senior leaders and high potential team members.
• Own the data platform P&L elements.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships; evaluate emerging technologies.
• Maintain strong partnerships with Product, Data & Analytics, AI, Security, Compliance and Finance.
• Serve as the executive voice for our data platforms internally and externally; represent the function in strategy, planning, risk committees, and executive forums.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s Degree preferred).
• 15+ years in software/data engineering with 12+ years leading platform or data engineering organizations at scale; proven success operating mission critical, cloud native data platforms and services.
• Demonstrated experience across GCP/AWS/Azure, large scale data processing (batch & streaming), data modeling, governance, security, and observability.
• Track record leading SRE/production ops for data platforms.
• Hands on depth in one of more of:
  Distributed processing storage (Big Query / Snowflake / Databricks), orchestration, lineage, ML platforms.
• Strong command of modern Dev Ops automation, and cloud security practices.
• Excellence in Executive communication, stakeholder management, vendor negotiation and demonstrated Fin Ops leadership.
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