Data Platform Director Financial Services

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 scalableDeliver partner analytics through BrokerDash, SSR, and APIsCoordinate data impact analysis for new product launchesGuide enterprise AI search and LLM-powered analyticsOwn freshness, accuracy, availability, incidents, and on-call processesRequirements:
Eight-plus years in data engineeringThree-plus years leading data teamsExperience with trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reportingHands-on CDC, Airflow, dbt, streaming, and reverse ETL experienceGCP, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform experienceLead Alpaca’s financial data platform with operational rigor, analytics expertise, and architecture decisions grounded in engineering detail.
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