Data Platform Engineering Leader (Governance & Adoption)

Blackstone Talent Group; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone Talent Group is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager (Governance & Quality) to lead strategy, governance, and adoption of the organization’s modern data platform. You will work cross-functionally to drive platform direction, best practices, and self-service analytics.

This player-coach role combines architecture oversight with operational ownership and enables analytics across the enterprise using Power BI and Sigma.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or Information systems or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform leadership
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams
• Hands-on experience with Databricks / Lakehouse architectures
• Strong familiarity with modern BI and semantic consumption patterns (Power BI, Sigma, or similar)
• Experience managing production data platforms in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Proven ability to drive platform adoption and organizational change
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead data platform strategy and roadmap aligned to analytics and business strategy.
• Oversee platform architecture decisions related to ingestion, transformation, modeling, Lakehouse patterns, and semantic layer strategy for Power BI and Sigma.
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, cost optimization, and future-readiness.
• Establish SLAs / SLOs for data pipelines and analytics workloads; incident management and governance.
• Partner with infrastructure/cloud teams on environment strategy and cost visibility.
• Improve platform production readiness and data product delivery standards.
• Drive adoption of self-service analytics and governance practices.
• Lead and develop a team of data engineers and analytics engineers.
• Promote CI/CD, testing, observability, and agile operating models.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics leadership to drive measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Platform leadership

Databricks

Lakehouse

Power BI

Sigma

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Agile

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or Information systems

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Blackstone Talent Group is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager (Governance & Quality) to lead strategy, governance, and adoption of the organization’s modern data platform. You will work cross-functionally to drive platform direction, best practices, and self-service analytics.

This player-coach role combines architecture oversight with operational ownership and enables analytics across the enterprise using Power BI and Sigma.