Director of Data

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AlpacaRemote - North America - EU - UK Remotefull-timedirector

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop three sub-teams: Platform Engineering & ETL, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science & Analytics, managing leads, setting priorities, and ensuring delivery.
  • Own the Data Lakehouse architecture, including Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, and dbt, making build-vs-buy decisions on tooling.
  • Drive partner invoicing accuracy and evolution, ensuring invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.
  • Deliver embedded analytics, exposing warehouse data to partners via BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting, and owning row-level security and entitlements.
  • Accelerate self-service analytics across the organization via semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI to shift the data team to strategic projects.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health Insurance
  • Remote Work

Culture

Stay CuriousHave EmpathyBe AccountableOpen Source ContributorsMission-DrivenRemote Work

Requirements

Regions: Worldwide

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About Alpaca
Industry: fintech
Size: medium

Alpaca is a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, offering institutional-grade APIs for trading stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income.

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Compensation
Equity: Stock Options