Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering

What this role involves

Lila is seeking a Director to lead its Data Platform Engineering team. The role involves owning the data platform end-to-end, building and managing a team of 8-12 engineers, and defining technical strategy. The platform supports AI/ML, product teams, and scientists with scalable data infrastructure.

Skills this posting asks for

• kafka
• flink
• duckdb
• clickhouse
• aws
• gcp
• s3
• athena
• bigquery
• lake house
• cloud-native object storage
• query engines
• real-time streaming
• columnar engines
• llm/ai-native data patterns
• vector stores
• embedding pipelines
• data ingestion
• data storage
• data processing
• ml training
• inference workloads
• self-service infrastructure
• low-code solutions

Requirements

• 12 years of experience
• Level: director

From the employer’s posting

Your Impact at LILA Lila is seeking a highly motivated and experienced engineering leader to lead a team responsible for our Lila's product data platform. You will own the data platform and infrastructure end-to-end — architecture, delivery, reliability, and developer/dat…