Head of Data Platforms

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a Director, Data Platforms (Head of Data Platform) to design, build, and operate the enterprise data platform with Snowflake at the core. You will own strategy, architecture, governance, security, and analytics enablement across enterprise and athlete-facing domains.

You will lead data engineering and analytics efforts, partner with Finance, Marketing, Operations, Product, and Technology, and drive reliable, scalable data and trusted metrics for executive

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics platforms, or related fields.
• 5+ years in technical leadership or people management roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud data architecture, governance, and analytics enablement.
• Proven ability to partner with Finance and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap centred on Snowflake; define data architecture and standards.
• Ensure platform readiness for BI, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
• Own Snowflake environments, security model, and cost management; define ingestion pipelines and RBAC.

Skills

Snowflake

Data architecture

Leadership

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

About the Role

The Director, Data Platforms (also described as the Head of Data Platform) is responsible for defining, building, and operating the enterprise data platform, with Snowflake as the core cloud data foundation. The role owns the end-to-end data platform strategy, including ingestion, modelling, governance, security, analytics enablement, and operational reliability, and ensures trusted, scalable data is available across the business. It reports to the VP of Data, Engineering & Development and partners closely with Finance, Marketing, Operations, Product, and Technology leaders to enable analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across enterprise and athlete-facing domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap centred on Snowflake; define and maintain logical and physical data architecture (raw, staging, curated layers); and establish platform standards for ingestion, modelling, and consumption.
• Ensure platform readiness for BI, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
• Take executive ownership of Snowflake environments, security model, and cost management; define best practices for ingestion pipelines, schema design, RBAC, and performance; and partner with Security and IT on privacy, compliance, and data protection.
• Oversee ingestion of enterprise systems including registration, eCommerce, finance, inventory, and CRM; ensure reliable, testable, and well-documented data pipelines; and establish development standards, CI/CD, and operational support models.
• Own the data and analytics foundation for core enterprise KPIs; partner with business leaders to define, standardise, and certify enterprise metrics; and establish authoritative data models and semantic definitions in Snowflake.
• Ensure executive dashboards consume certified, governed datasets; oversee data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and metric integrity; and enable scalable self-service analytics with strong governance guardrails.
• Act as the single point of accountability for enterprise KPI data integrity
• Align platform priorities to executive reporting and strategic initiatives
• Present platform readiness, risks, and KPI trust indicators to leadership
• And partner with BI and Finance teams to evolve KPI definitions over time.
• Drive the success measures of consistent and trusted enterprise KPIs, high confidence in executive and financial reporting, reduced reconciliation effort and metric discrepancies, clear ownership and governance for enterprise metrics
• And increased self-service analytics adoption with faster time-to-insight.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and respectful team environment
• Embrace the BE ICONIC mindset with an athlete-first perspective
• Communicate openly

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics platforms, or related fields.
• 5+ years in technical leadership or people management roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud data architecture, governance, and analytics enablement.
• Proven ability to partner with Finance and business stakeholders.

Workplace

• Tampa, Florida office

About the Company

Its purpose is to inspire people to unlock their greatest potential through sport, and through its BE ICONIC vision it aims to build the most loved brands, produce the world's most inspiring events, and foster deeply engaged communities.