Marketplace Platform Lead

Overview

Job role:

Marketplace Platform Lead.

Location:

Remote. Duration: 8+ months.

The Marketplace Platform Lead is responsible for driving the end-to-end technical architecture and implementation of the enterprise Data Marketplace platform. This role spans stakeholder engagement, architectural definition, integration design, and hands-on leadership throughout implementation. The ideal candidate is a seasoned technical leader with deep experience designing integration patterns, building scalable platforms, and guiding engineering teams through complex cross-system solutions.

• Lead stakeholder meetings to gather business requirements, align on platform objectives, and clarify workflows and user journeys.
• Conduct tool evaluations, build scoring frameworks, and make recommendations on platforms, vendors, and integration technologies.
• Define end-to-end Marketplace architecture, including data flows, APIs, domain models, integration strategies, and platform components.
• Design and lead the implementation of integration patterns, including API-based integrations, event-driven patterns, workflow orchestration, and cross-system interoperability.
• Develop technical designs, architectural documents, and standards for Marketplace workflows, user flows, and extensibility patterns.
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams throughout solution design, development, and delivery.
• Oversee technical quality, scalability, performance, and security across Marketplace components and integrations.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise data governance, privacy, and reliability standards.
• Lead technical reviews, drive design decisions, and ensure alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform development, or technical architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing integration architectures, including REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs, event-driven patterns, synchronous/asynchronous messaging, and workflow engines.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native solutions (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Proficiency with API design, messaging systems, and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Experience defining technical architecture, data flows, and workflow designs for complex platforms.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs, user flows, and actionable engineering plans.
• Demonstrated leadership in guiding engineering teams through architectural decisions and implementation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience evaluating and scoring platforms, tools, or vendor solutions.
• Solid knowledge of Dev Ops practices, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and security best practices.

• Experience building or leading a Data Marketplace platform.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms, rules engines, BPM tools, or catalog management systems.
• Experience with enterprise identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), access governance, and data privacy frameworks.
• Background working with enterprise data platforms, data governance, or cross-domain integration patterns.
• Prior experience leading architectural governance or serving as a platform architect in an enterprise environment.