[Hiring] Director, Data and Platform @RxSense

Role Description

We're adding a director of data and platform architecture to a small, high-leverage AI engineering team. You'll own the full data architecture end to end:

• How data lands in our systems
• How it moves through ETL and transformation
• How it ultimately reaches stakeholders through extracts and dashboards

You'll also own devops and infrastructure for the AI engineering team, meaning you decide how everything gets built, deployed, and kept running. This is a hands-on keyboard role, even at the director level.

This role comes with direct reports from the start. You'll build and lead the team as it grows, while staying close enough to the work to keep shipping code yourself.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the data architecture end to end, from the moment data lands in our systems through ETL and transformation, extracts, and the dashboards stakeholders rely on.
• Own devops and infrastructure for the AI engineering team end to end.
• Design and own the platform architecture underlying our AI engineering systems, from ingestion through serving.
• Set technical direction and standards for data infrastructure, pipelines, ETL and transformation logic, and platform reliability.
• Design the extract and reporting layer so downstream dashboards and analytics are accurate, timely, and trusted.
• Build the systems and infrastructure you design, and make them production grade: deployable, observable, and stable enough to run without hand holding.
• Write and ship code yourself.
• Build and lead the data and platform team as it grows, from hiring through day-to-day direction.
• Mentor engineers on architecture, data design, devops, and/or platform thinking.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to engineers, other architects, and leadership.
• Partner with AI engineering leadership to align platform investments with product and research priorities.
• Translate business and executive priorities into data strategy and architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years architecting and building platforms in production.
• Proven, hands-on experience owning data architecture end to end.
• Proven, hands-on devops experience.
• A track record of writing and shipping production code yourself.
• Hands-on depth across the modern data stack.
• Hands-on experience with devops tooling and practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers on architecture, data design, devops, and/or platform thinking.
• Prior experience building and leading a team, or clear readiness to take on direct reports.
• Comfort working in a small, fast-moving team where you'll wear multiple hats.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience architecting data platforms that support AI or ML workloads.
• Experience with vector databases for AI/ML retrieval.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefits, or another regulated data environment.
• Experience standing up data platforms from scratch (greenfield).

Salary Range

220,000 - 260,000

Company Description

RxSense believes that a diverse workforce is a more talented and productive workforce. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our recruitment process is free from discriminatory hiring practices and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin. Neither will qualified applicants be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status. We believe in the strength of the collaboration, creativity and sense of community a diverse workforce brings.