Head of Data Platform & Engineering — Build Trusted Data

Mercury; San Francisco (CA); On-site; CAD 274,000 - 342,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury seeks a Head of Data Engineering & Platform to design and lead a data platform that accelerates analytics, AI, and product development. You will manage a high-performing team, shape architecture, and drive responsible data governance across the organization.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Legal to ensure a scalable, trusted data foundation for Mercury’s fintech ecosystem and internal tools.

Qualifications

• Bring 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Have architected modern data platforms at scale, building the data foundations, semantic layers, metadata, and platform capabilities that power analytics, AI, machine learning, and operational systems.
• Demonstrate the technical judgment and organizational influence to evolve data architecture through periods of rapid growth, balancing long-term, well-governed platform investments with near-term product needs.
• Bring deep expertise in modern data infrastructure, including data modeling, orchestration, streaming, storage systems, metadata, and governance.
• Have experience partnering with Security, Legal, Compliance, and Privacy teams to ensure data platforms meet the privacy, security, and regulatory standards expected of a regulated financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of senior data and analytics engineers responsible for Mercury's core data infrastructure, setting a high technical bar and cultivating a strong engineering culture.
• Define and execute Mercury's long-term data platform strategy, building the architecture, tooling, and reusable data products that power analytics, AI, operational systems, and self-service across the company.
• Build a platform that makes Mercury's data easy for both people and AI systems to discover, understand, and use, investing in semantic models, metadata, and developer tooling that make trusted data reusable across the company.
• Establish the foundations for a trusted, resilient data platform by driving best practices for reliability, observability, data quality, governance, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Security, and Infrastructure leaders to ensure Mercury's data platform accelerates product development, business operations, and decision-making.

Job description

Mercury seeks a Head of Data Engineering & Platform to design and lead a data platform that accelerates analytics, AI, and product development. You will manage a high-performing team, shape architecture, and drive responsible data governance across the organization.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Legal to ensure a scalable, trusted data foundation for Mercury’s fintech ecosystem and internal tools.