Enterprise Data Platform & AI Leader

ENGIE; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

ESPP

PTO and holidays

401(k) with company match

Job summary

ENGIE North America is seeking a senior data platform leader responsible for building and operating an enterprise-grade data and AI platform that underpins trading, risk, and operational systems.

You will own end-to-end data platform stack, including ingestion, storage, processing, access, and AI enablement, and operate it as a core shared service across multiple domains. This role emphasizes platform-product thinking, adoption, and governance to drive revenue, risk management, and resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/engineering or related field.
• 15+ years in data platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
• Proven experience building cloud-native, mission-critical data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own design, delivery, and operation of the enterprise data platform including real-time and batch ingestion.
• Ensure Tier-0 reliability, scalability, and performance of platform services.
• Build and operate AI/ML and Generative AI platform infrastructure.
• Deploy production-grade AI solutions to enhance trading and risk decision-making.
• Lead AI governance and Center of Excellence initiatives with policy controls.
• Own platform security, IAM integration, and data entitlements.
• Treat the data platform as a product with self-service tooling and APIs.
• Lead the Datastone transformation aligning with ENGIE standards.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for Tier-0 services including SLAs and resilience.
• Collaborate with Trading, Risk, Analytics, Quant, and Engineering teams to standardize platform usage.

Skills

Data platform engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Real-time ingestion

Lakehouse

AI/ML platforms

Leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

ENGIE North America is seeking a senior data platform leader responsible for building and operating an enterprise-grade data and AI platform that underpins trading, risk, and operational systems.

You will own end-to-end data platform stack, including ingestion, storage, processing, access, and AI enablement, and operate it as a core shared service across multiple domains. This role emphasizes platform-product thinking, adoption, and governance to drive revenue, risk management, and resilience.