VP, Data Platform & Migration Automation

Axon Enterprise; Arizona; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon is seeking a data engineering leader to standardize migrations, integration, and data governance across our platforms (Fusus, Records, Standards, Gravity, Vision). This is architecture and engineering leadership, not project management, focused on reusable frameworks and scalable pipelines.

You will build and mentor a team of data engineers and solution architects, define data quality standards, and partner with product and PSO delivery to align roadmap, capacity and pricing with customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• 10+ years leading data engineering, integration, or migration teams, including 5+ years in hands-on architecture or build capacity.
• Experience designing and building data migration platforms or frameworks at scale.
• Deep fluency in ETL/ELT design, data modeling, schema mapping, API-based and event-driven integrations.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-assisted data mapping and automated schema inference.
• Direct experience with enterprise data integration/migration platforms (e.g., Informatica, MuleSoft, Fivetrink, Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir Foundry, Boomi, etc.).
• Strong SQL and data pipeline scripting (Python or equivalent).
• Experience leading legacy system decommissioning at scale with minimal downtime.
• Proven ability to build and scale technical teams of data engineers and solution architects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate deep technical tradeoffs for executives.

Responsibilities

• Owns architecture and execution strategy for data migrations and integrations across multiple product lines, replacing ad hoc approaches with reusable frameworks.
• Partner with Product to design and build a modern migration/integration platform with configurable per-agency pipelines.
• Lead engineering and solution architecture teams for legacy CAD/RMS data extraction and data conversion.
• Establish common data mapping, transformation, and validation standards across products.
• Set data governance, security, and chain-of-custody requirements for sensitive data during migrations.
• Evaluate build vs. buy for tooling and make deliberate in‑house vs licensed calls.
• Define KPIs for migration velocity, data quality, and time-to-go-live; drive continuous improvement.
• Build and mentor a scalable team of data engineers, integration engineers, and solution architects.
• Align migration capacity and pricing with customer commitments with PSO delivery and Sales.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Architecture & strategy

ETL/ELT design

SQL

Python

Data governance

Platform migration

Vendor comparison

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

10+ years leading data teams

Tools

Informatica

MuleSoft

Fivetran

Talend

Databricks

Snowflake

Palantir Foundry

Boomi

SnapLogic

AWS Glue/DMS

Job description

Axon is seeking a data engineering leader to standardize migrations, integration, and data governance across our platforms (Fusus, Records, Standards, Gravity, Vision). This is architecture and engineering leadership, not project management, focused on reusable frameworks and scalable pipelines.

You will build and mentor a team of data engineers and solution architects, define data quality standards, and partner with product and PSO delivery to align roadmap, capacity and pricing with customer