AI-Powered Data Platform Lead

CAIS; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Hybrid in-office model

Wellness programs

Job summary

CAIS is seeking a Data Platform Solutions Lead to join our Data Team in New York. You will design and implement scalable data models, drive data governance, and build AI-ready data solutions that empower analytics, reporting, and downstream applications.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable data products and internal tools. Key focus includes applying AI to governance, modeling, and automation, with hands-on work

Qualifications

• Experience applying AI tools in a data context, including governance, modeling, or pipeline development.
• Experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data architecture, ideally in financial services/fintech.
• Strong SQL skills; Snowflake experience for warehousing and transformation.
• Hands-on experience with dbt for modeling and workflow management.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data models to structure raw data into clean, well-documented assets powering analytics and reports.
• Lead data governance initiatives: ownership, quality standards, and a discoverable data catalog.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to ensure governed data assets are ready for downstream integration.
• Actively leverage AI tools across data modeling, governance, documentation, exploration, and tooling.
• Develop internal data tools and products to improve data access and usage across the firm.

Skills

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Data governance

Data modeling

Data pipelines

AI tools usage

Communication

Tools

DataHub

Collibra

Alation

Python

Tableau

Job description

CAIS is seeking a Data Platform Solutions Lead to join our Data Team in New York. You will design and implement scalable data models, drive data governance, and build AI-ready data solutions that empower analytics, reporting, and downstream applications.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable data products and internal tools. Key focus includes applying AI to governance, modeling, and automation, with hands-on work