Head of Enterprise Data Platform & Self-Service Data Ops

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Enterprise Data Architecture team responsible for ICE Data Services' next-generation data platform.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform reliability, and partner with architecture, product, governance, QA, ML/AI, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions. This role demands strong people management, deep software/data engineering experience, and the ability to translate strategy into

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams with hiring and performance management.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale data platforms and orchestration.
• Strong practice in SDLC, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing, and release management.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata, lineage, and data contracts.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, data warehousing concepts, and modeling.
• Ability to work across architects, product, infrastructure, QA, data scientists, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software and data engineers responsible for enterprise data platform capabilities.
• Translate platform objectives into engineering roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Deliver scalable, secure, maintainable data platform services including orchestration and pipelines.
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, product, governance, QA, ML/AI, and business stakeholders.
• Establish engineering best practices for VCS, CI/CD, testing, code review, observability, and production support.
• Drive self-service platform capabilities with guardrails to reduce dependency on centralized teams.
• Champion data quality, metadata, lineage, schema governance, and data contracts.
• Manage risk, dependencies, resource planning, release readiness, and operational excellence.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain engineering talent; support career development and succession.
• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and business-impact delivery.
• Escalate critical platform issues and communicate status to leadership.
• Represent priorities and outcomes clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Leadership

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Communication

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Eng/IS/Data Science

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Enterprise Data Architecture team responsible for ICE Data Services' next-generation data platform.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform reliability, and partner with architecture, product, governance, QA, ML/AI, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions. This role demands strong people management, deep software/data engineering experience, and the ability to translate strategy into