Senior Enterprise Data Platform Lead

Lever, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data to lead a cross-functional team delivering governed data products on the Databricks platform. You will guide domain enablement, data governance, and analytics engineering to translate enterprise strategy into scalable data solutions.

You will partner with senior leadership to align priorities, manage capacity, and ensure durable, production-ready outputs across domains such as analytics, engineering, and governance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across data engineering, analytics engineering, BI/data platforms, data architecture, or related data disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience leading and developing technical teams responsible for data products or data-platform delivery.
• Experience translating business priorities into outcome-oriented roadmaps, scoped delivery plans, and sequencing decisions.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Enterprise Data delivery team, including Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Domain Enablement Engineers, and Data Governance specialists.
• Establish delivery rhythms for planning, prioritization, capacity management, roadmap tracking, dependency management, risk escalation, and stakeholder communication.
• Turn enterprise data strategy and domain priorities into sequenced, achievable delivery plans across onboarding, source integration, data-product delivery, semantic enablement, and governance.
• Partner with business leaders to shape intake, clarify outcomes, assess readiness, prioritize use cases, and set realistic delivery expectations.
• Ensure domain work is scoped and sequenced, balancing near-term value with durable, governed data foundations.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple data functions; resolve dependencies and escalate decisions where needed.
• Ensure production readiness, data quality, documentation, ownership, lineage, security, and maintainability.
• Review delivery plans, technical approaches, risks, and tradeoffs with technical leads.

Skills

Leadership

Data platforms

Roadmaps

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data to lead a cross-functional team delivering governed data products on the Databricks platform. You will guide domain enablement, data governance, and analytics engineering to translate enterprise strategy into scalable data solutions.

You will partner with senior leadership to align priorities, manage capacity, and ensure durable, production-ready outputs across domains such as analytics, engineering, and governance.