7+ years of experience designing and operating modern data platforms utilizing distributed processing technologies (Spark, Flink, or equivalent), streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub), orchestration frameworks (Airflow or similar), and cloud-native data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or equivalent. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role: you'll grow and run a large team, roll out reference architectures into production yourself and through your teams, and stay grounded in reality by personally running hands-on pilots to prove out what you're putting into practice before scaling it across the organization.