Director, Data Platform & Product Innovation

Newrez; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Retirement plan

Parental Leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Newrez is seeking a Director of Data Product Management to lead enterprise data platform strategy and execution. You will unify data capabilities, drive modernization, and enable scalable systems that accelerate growth.

Collaborate with product engineering, architecture, commercial, and operations to deliver a high-performing platform foundation. You will guide architecture patterns, build a data-first culture, and mentor a team of product owners and engineers ensuring reliability, security, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a business administration degree preferred.
• 8+ years’ experience in data architecture, cloud engineering, and product leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), event-driven architectures, API-led integration, and modern data stacks.
• Proven experience building enterprise-scale platforms supporting analytics, AI/ML, and operational workloads.
• Strong leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communicator with ability to translate complex technical concepts for business audiences.
• Background working across multiple markets in fintech experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise architecture strategy for the modern data products and platform, including cloud data services, integration patterns, governance, and scalability.
• Lead the design of unified data capabilities that power analytics, ML/AI, real-time systems, and operational use cases.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives across markets and business units.
• Partner with business and product leadership to translate business needs into technical capabilities and platform roadmaps.
• Establish architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across data, integration, and event-driven systems.
• Build and mentor a high-performing organization of product owners and engineers.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, performance, and compliance.
• Champion a data-first culture and cross-functional alignment across technology, product, operations, and commercial teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud engineering

Product leadership

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Effective communication

Fintech domain

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Business Administration degree

Job description

Newrez is seeking a Director of Data Product Management to lead enterprise data platform strategy and execution. You will unify data capabilities, drive modernization, and enable scalable systems that accelerate growth.

Collaborate with product engineering, architecture, commercial, and operations to deliver a high-performing platform foundation. You will guide architecture patterns, build a data-first culture, and mentor a team of product owners and engineers ensuring reliability, security, and