Director of Platform Engineering

10+ years of experience in software development, with 5+ years of people management experience, demonstrating success in building, growing, and managing multiple teams.
Prior experience in leading a Platform Engineering function in a Director of Engineering capacity.
5+ years of experience in software engineering with experience with large-scale AWS based cloud solutions and a good understanding and familiarity with the following technologies: Postgres, Elastic, Redis, streaming data solutions, ETL technologies.
Extensive hands-on experience in architecting and building complex data platforms, platform services and data integrations inbound and outbound with the platform.
Strong experience in building production-level systems including CI/CD techniques, deploying models at scale, and utilizing data pipeline orchestration and visualization tools.
Proven ability to influence and deliver high-impact initiatives. Forward-thinking mindset with the ability to define and drive the team’s mission, vision, and long-term strategies.
Excellent leadership skills with a track record of managing teams and collaborating effectively across departments. Strong writing and communication skills with a keen business intuition and adaptability to new technologies.
A passion for quality and a “Get Stuff Done” attitude, balanced with a sense of responsibility to customers and the team.
B.S. or M.S. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Define and drive the Platform roadmap that is aligned with product and business objectives.
Lead the development of the data pipeline with robust integrations to Blackpoint’s endpoint agent and vendor integrations, and including data storage, tiered access and query capabilities.
Lead the delivery of all supporting platform services and their public APIs to power the security modules of the unified security posture platform, including tenant management, identity, RBAC, etc.
Lead data platform tooling and APIs to enhance and accelerate AI/ML and BI projects across the company.
Lead developer tooling and productivity responsible for continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (CI/CD).
Define the long-term vision of the data platform. Define and implement best practices in data architecture, data modeling, and data governance. Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends in data engineering and data science to ensure the platform remains cutting-edge.
Build strong relationships with internal customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Cultivate excellence in the reliability, scalability, security, and craft of the software your team builds.
Hire and develop high caliber and high performing platform engineers and data engineers and continue to build and structure your organization at scale.

No preferred qualifications provided.