Director, Data Platform & Scale

Unchain Data; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Unlimited PTO

Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

401k match

Hardware setup

Job summary

Polymarket is seeking a Director of Data Platform to build and scale the foundation powering decision making across the company. You’ll lead data engineering, analytics engineering, and data science teams, owning data ingestion, modeling, and trusted datasets.

You will define architecture, roadmap, and operating models to deliver reliable pipelines and scalable data products as the company grows across on-chain and off-chain systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science, including 4+ years managing.
• Experience leading a multi-disciplinary data team, where engineers and scientists have different working styles and definitions of done.
• A strong technical foundation. You can review a data model, an architecture proposal, or a query plan and make it better.
• Production experience across the modern data stack: orchestration and transformation such as Airflow, dbt, or Spark, a cloud warehouse such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or ClickHouse, and AWS or GCP underneath.
• A track record of raising data quality somewhere the numbers previously could not be relied on, and the judgment to know which fixes actually move trust.
• Ability to prioritize across competing stakeholders and say no with a reason people can accept.
• A hiring track record. You have built a team, not only inherited one
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently and you need to keep pace
• (Plus) Familiarity with on-chain data ingestion or blockchain infrastructure
• (Plus) Experience supporting finance or regulatory reporting, where accuracy is not negotiable
• (Plus) Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists, and set the bar for what good looks like across all three crafts
• Own the architecture and roadmap for the data platform, from ingestion through the modeled layer that powers reporting and analysis across the company
• Set the standards that make data trustworthy including modeling conventions, testing, freshness SLAs, incident response, and clear ownership of every dataset
• Partner with engineering on instrumentation and on-chain data ingestion, so the platform captures what the business needs before someone has to ask for it
• Work with analytics leadership and business stakeholders to prioritize platform work against the analyses and decisions it unblocks
• Make the build-versus-buy and tooling calls across orchestration, transformation, warehouse, and BI, and own the cost and performance envelope that comes with them
• Stay ahead of scalability constraints as volume grows and new products launch, rather than discovering them during an incident
• Build the operating rhythm including planning, on-call, review practices, and documentation standards, allowing the team scale past what any one person can hold in their head

Skills

Data leadership

Team management

Architectural review

Stakeholder management

Data quality improvement

Prioritization

Hiring

Adaptability

On-chain familiarity

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

ClickHouse

AWS

GCP

Job description

Polymarket is seeking a Director of Data Platform to build and scale the foundation powering decision making across the company. You’ll lead data engineering, analytics engineering, and data science teams, owning data ingestion, modeling, and trusted datasets.

You will define architecture, roadmap, and operating models to deliver reliable pipelines and scalable data products as the company grows across on-chain and off-chain systems.