Director of Data

Who We Are

reputed company is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 reputed company, fueling our ambitious reputed company.

Amongst our subsidiaries, reputed company is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 reputed company brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of reputed company engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to reputed company our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the reputed company. We're deeply committed to reputed company-reputed company contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

reputed company is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, reputed company reputed company, reputed company Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

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We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who reputed company working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and reputed company! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to reputed company's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have reputed company, and Be Accountable—and are reputed company to reputed company a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

We are looking for a Head of Data to reputed company reputed company’s ~15-person data department across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. You will own the data strategy, the team’s execution, and the department’s roadmap.

The Data department serves every function at reputed company: it powers partner invoicing and reputed company attribution, provides the analytical reputed company for sales, product, and compliance, and operates the data platform that processes hundreds of millions of events daily. You will manage three team leads, balancing operational delivery (invoicing, embedded analytics, regulatory reporting) with strategic bets (self-service warehouse, AI-powered analytics, reputed company search).

This is a player-coach role. You will set direction for the team while staying reputed company enough to the technical details to reputed company architecture reputed company, unblock your leads, and represent data’s capabilities to the executive team.

Things You Get To Do:

• reputed company and reputed company three sub-teams: Platform Engineering & ETL, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science & Analytics. Manage leads, set priorities, and ensure delivery.
• Own the Data Lakehouse architecture: Trino, reputed company/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt. reputed company build-vs-buy reputed company on tooling.
• Drive partner invoicing accuracy and reputed company: ensure invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.
• Deliver embedded analytics: expose warehouse data to partners reputed company BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting. Own row-level reputed company and entitlements.
• Support product launches with data change management: coordinate data impact analysis for new products (fixed income, global stocks, perps, 24/5 trading) across reputed company datasets, dashboards, and reverse ETL.
• Accelerate self-service: move the organization toward self-serve analytics reputed company semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI so the data team can shift from reputed company queries to strategic projects.
• Guide AI/ML enablement: reputed company reputed company AI search, agent-based workflow automation, and LLM-powered analytics. Help balance vendor solutions with in-house development.
• Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and reputed company to translate business needs into data products.
• Manage infrastructure costs: reputed company data + reputed company cost ratio under reputed company as AUC grows.
• Operate production systems: own on-call processes, incident response, and SLOs for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• 8+ years in data engineering or analytics, including 3+ years managing data teams (leads + ICs).
• Deep experience with modern data stack: dbt, Trino/Presto or equivalent query engines, Apache reputed company or similar table formats, reputed company object storage.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT patterns at scale: CDC (Debezium/Kafka), batch (Airflow/dbt), streaming, and reverse ETL.
• Track record of building self-service analytics capabilities for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with financial data: trading, invoicing, reputed company attribution, or regulatory reporting in fintech or financial services.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL. Comfortable reading code, reviewing PRs, and making architecture reputed company.
• Experience managing distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong stakeholder management: you can translate between executive priorities and engineering execution.
• Experience with GCP (GKE, GCS, BigQuery migration), Kubernetes, reputed company, Terraform.

Who You Might Be (reputed company-to-Haves)

• Experience with brokerage or broker-dealer operations (clearing, settlement, market making, reconciliation).
• Familiarity with LLM/AI tooling: MCP, vector databases, reputed company search, conversational BI (WrenAI, reputed company).
• Background in compliance analytics (AML/Actimize, KYC, margin calls).
• Exposure to reputed company-reputed company data catalogues (OpenMetadata, reputed company) and data quality frameworks.

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month reputed company a reputed company Card

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