Director, Data & AI Platform Engineering

Overview

Director of Data & AI Platform Engineering leading the strategy, design, and execution of SailPoint’s enterprise data and AI platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage Data and AI Platform engineering teams.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for the data platform.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable data pipelines using Flink/Spark, dbt, Airflow, and Snowflake/Iceberg.
• Ensure reliability, availability, and security of data processing infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers on data processing needs.
• Establish engineering thought leadership via conferences and technical blog posts.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software development focused on data processing or ML systems at scale.
• 8+ years of engineering people management, including leading/mentoring teams.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering managers.
• Deep expertise in open-source data technologies including Flink, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, and OpenSearch.
• Hands-on experience with Java/Scala and Python for data processing and AI.
• Experience designing for performance, including partitioning, parallelism, serialization, scaling, and storage formats.

Details

• Location: Remote, India.