Director of Data

Do you get energy from turning a fast-growing stream of data into a platform the whole business can build on — and from leading the team that makes it happen?

If you're a hands-on data leader who thinks in architecture rather than just tools, and who wants full ownership of a platform end to end, the Director of Data role at TBAuctions might be for you.

As Director of Data, you own the company's data platform: making sure data is ingested, processed, governed and made available reliably and securely for analytics, AI, machine learning and operational applications. You lead the Data Platform Engineering team and are accountable for both the team's growth and the platform's operational excellence.

We're invested in Databricks and Azure today, but we're looking for someone who thinks beyond the current stack — in terms of architecture, engineering practices, open source opportunities and long-term capability building. You report to the CFO.

• Own the technical direction of the data platform, including its infrastructure and budget

• Develop a roadmap that balances business priorities with long-term platform investments, and make the architectural calls that keep it scalable, secure and maintainable

• Lead ingestion and integration of data from internal platforms, SaaS applications, ERP/CRM systems, APIs and third-party sources, and build and operate reliable batch and streaming pipelines

• Develop and maintain our Medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture, and evolve the gold layer to better serve day-to-day data and BI needs

• Implement platform-wide governance — metadata management, cataloguing, lineage and access controls — in partnership with Security and Architecture to keep us GDPR and security compliant

• Enable ML & AI workloads through scalable pipelines and high-quality datasets, and build self-service capabilities for analysts and power users

• Lead and develop the Data Platform Engineering team, setting engineering standards, coding practices and delivery priorities