Director, Platform & Data Engineering

chainalysis-careers; Ontario (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis is seeking a Director of Business Systems & Platform Engineering to lead a cross-functional team across platform and data engineering, integration, and systems administration. You will own the integrated technical roadmap for business systems architecture and governance, and mentor managers and engineers in a fast-evolving, AI-enabled environment.

The role requires building scalable, secure data platforms, shaping standards, and collaborating with Product, Success, and Program

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, platform, or data engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and engineering managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the systems and engineering org through a shift from a traditional IT and admin-centric org to one centered around platform and data engineering.
• Own the technical architecture, design, and delivery roadmap across business systems, enterprise data and integrations.
• Directly manage and grow systems and engineering-track managers and direct reports including technical mentorship and career pathing.
• Collaborate with team members to establish and codify standards, style guides, workflows, ceremonies and other engineering and systems practices into a single, coherent operating model that leverages AI and agentic processes.
• Partner with colleagues in Product, Success and Program Management to prioritize and deliver the BADaS roadmap by translating business, process and product requirements into technical scope, staffing, and sequencing decisions.
• Act as the internal technical counterpart to vendors and partners, including reviewing architecture proposals, approving technical designs, and owning technical builds.
• Own security, RBAC, and data-governance posture of BADaS platforms, especially from an audit and access-control risk perspective.
• Partner with engineering leaders across Chainalysis on best practices and to leverage platforms, components, solutions and code-bases that already exist.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Data engineering

Engineering management

Integration engineering

Systems administration

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Databricks

Airbyte

Job description

Chainalysis is seeking a Director of Business Systems & Platform Engineering to lead a cross-functional team across platform and data engineering, integration, and systems administration. You will own the integrated technical roadmap for business systems architecture and governance, and mentor managers and engineers in a fast-evolving, AI-enabled environment.

The role requires building scalable, secure data platforms, shaping standards, and collaborating with Product, Success, and Program