Enterprise Data Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Elastic; United States; Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible location

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Volunteer time

Charity match

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Enterprise Data to own end-to-end data strategy, platform evolution, and governance. You will scale MDM into an active operational hub and institutionalize a federated governance model across a global enterprise.

You will bridge engineering and business, turning data into a real-time decision engine and a scalable data product with strong SLOs and catalog visibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years in data leadership, scale-focused roles in a B2B environment.
• At least 5 years managing managers and architects directly.
• Proven ability to translate technical data programs into business value and ROI.
• Deep cloud data stack experience and enterprise MDM platforms.
• Experience driving data as a product with SLOs and catalogs.
• Experience with M&A data integration and large-scale migrations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a data strategy that scales to multi-billion revenue.
• Lead architecture, governance, and federated data management across groups.
• Transform data from utility to real-time product powering decisions.
• Drive real-time analytics, data cataloging, and automated observability.
• Partner with Security, Legal, and business units to ensure compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Data Architecture

Data Governance

MDM

Data Mesh

Cloud Data Platforms

AI/ML Readiness

Stakeholder Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

AWS

Azure

Informatica

Reltio

Semarchy

Profisee

Job description

Elastic is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Enterprise Data to own end-to-end data strategy, platform evolution, and governance. You will scale MDM into an active operational hub and institutionalize a federated governance model across a global enterprise.

You will bridge engineering and business, turning data into a real-time decision engine and a scalable data product with strong SLOs and catalog visibility.