Head of Data Platform & Architecture

Manifest Os; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Manifest OS in New York City is seeking a senior data platform architect to own the data platform architecture, direction, and reliability. You will define a two-year target state and sequence a path to it while keeping data trustworthy as the system scales, partnering with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Legal Ops.

You will lead a team, review difficult designs, and drive trade-offs across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, including serving as architect - not just contributor - of a cloud data platform.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical work experience.
• Deep hands-on fluency with BigQuery (or Snowflake/Databricks), dbt, Python, and advanced SQL
• Real production experience: your opinions on orchestration, idempotency, and testing came from being paged
• Experience leading engineers formally or as a technical lead, with comfort in a player-coach role
• Treats access control, PII handling, and auditability as core design requirements, not afterthoughts

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state data architecture - ingestion, modeling, semantic layer, and serving - with a sequenced roadmap and named trade-offs
• Drive build-vs-buy and tooling decisions across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability
• Own data trust: make freshness, correctness, and lineage observable; enforce standards in CI
• Maintain a single definitional layer so one metric means the same thing everywhere - BigQuery, HubSpot, board deck
• Build governed foundations for AI features, including identity resolution and canonical entity models
• Lead and grow the team while staying close enough to the code to review hard designs and complex queries

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud data platform

BigQuery

Snowflake/Databricks

dbt

Python

SQL

Leadership

PII handling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Manifest OS in New York City is seeking a senior data platform architect to own the data platform architecture, direction, and reliability. You will define a two-year target state and sequence a path to it while keeping data trustworthy as the system scales, partnering with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Legal Ops.

You will lead a team, review difficult designs, and drive trade-offs across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.