Dave is looking for a Director, Data Platform & AI Acceleration to own the company's end-to-end data lifecycle and accelerate AI enablement. You'll design and evolve the data platform, build scalable infrastructure, and lead a team focused on automation and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
- Define and evolve the end-to-end data platform architecture across batch, streaming, and real-time use cases.
- Embed governance into infrastructure—data quality, lineage, semantic layer, access control, and compliance enforced by design.
- Build scalable ingestion, transformation, and modeling layers that create reliable, AI-ready datasets for analytics, product, finance, and science teams.
- Accelerate AI adoption through last mile tooling and increase automation.
- Establish operational excellence: clear SLAs, monitoring, observability, cost management and incident response practices.
- Hire, develop, and retain strong data platform and AI engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and thoughtful trade-offs.
- Partner closely with Analytics, Product, Science, Compliance, and Engineering to ensure the platform evolves with business needs.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years in data engineering or data platform roles.
- 5+ years leading and scaling engineering teams.
- Proven experience designing and operating end-to-end data platforms (ingestion → modeling → serving) in production environments.
- Deep understanding of data modeling approaches across raw, curated, and consumption layers.
- Proficiency with AI-native development workflows. You use LLMs, agentic coding tools, and AI-assisted automation as a regular part of how you build.
- Experience embedding data quality, lineage, access control, and compliance into platform infrastructure.
- Strong architectural judgment across batch and streaming systems.
- Experience building infrastructure that enables AI/ML teams (e.g., feature stores, experiment pipelines, model-serving integrations).
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech or regulated environments.
- Experience modernizing or re-architecting legacy data platforms.
Benefits & Compensation
- Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals.
- Flexible hours and virtual first work culture with a home office stipend.
- Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans.
- Generous paid parental and caregiver leave.
- 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions.
- Financial advisor and financial wellness support.
- Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break.
- All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team.
Work Mode
This is a global position open to candidates in the United States. Dave operates with a flexible, virtual-first culture.
Dave Operating LLC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is dedicated to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants and do not discriminate on any basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
