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Alpaca is seeking a Director of Data to lead its ~15-person data department across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. You will own the data strategy, team execution, and departmental roadmap, managing three team leads while balancing operational delivery with strategic initiatives.
Key responsibilities include leading and developing three sub-teams (Platform Engineering & ETL, Analytics Engineering, Data Science & Analytics), owning the Data Lakehouse architecture (Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt), and driving partner invoicing accuracy and evolution. You will deliver embedded analytics to partners via BrokerDash and API-based reporting, support product launches with data change management across new offerings (fixed income, global stocks, 24/5 trading), and accelerate self-service analytics through semantic layers and data catalogues.
This is a player-coach role requiring hands-on technical involvement alongside leadership. You will guide AI/ML enablement for enterprise search and LLM-powered analytics, collaborate across Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate business needs into data products, manage infrastructure costs as AUC grows, and operate production systems with ownership of on-call processes and SLOs.
Required qualifications: 8+ years in data engineering or analytics with 3+ years managing data teams; deep expertise with modern data stack (dbt, Trino/Presto, Apache Iceberg, cloud object storage); hands-on ETL/ELT at scale (CDC, batch, streaming, reverse ETL); track record building self-service analytics; financial data experience (trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, regulatory reporting in fintech); Python and SQL proficiency; experience managing distributed remote teams across time zones; strong stakeholder management translating executive priorities into technical execution.
