Director of Engineering – Data Platform

FormativGroup

Director of Engineering at FormativGroup leading engineering for a regulated data platform product. Overseeing a distributed team and ensuring delivery, quality, and security readiness.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a distributed engineering team across platform/product engineering, connectors, QA, DevOps/infra, AI implementation, data governance, and support.
Own delivery, quality, release discipline, and execution of the technical roadmap.
Install engineering discipline where it's thin: automated testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning.
Drive repeatable, perimeter-safe deployments, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, secure deployment, and SOC 2 readiness.
Partner with the Chief Architect on the connector framework, canonical metadata model, architecture decisions, and product IP.
Build the team: assess current talent, retain the strong, hire the gaps, and align the team plan to the roadmap.
Push practical AI use across coding, review, testing, ops, and engineering productivity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Engineering leadership experience; you have run and grown teams, managed engineers, owned delivery, and shipped real product.
Hands-on technical depth in data platforms, metadata, backend systems, or platform engineering; enough to earn the respect of strong engineers.
Experience building or rebuilding an engineering function from the ground up, especially in a startup or early-stage environment.
Experience installing testing, QA, CI/CD, release process, or quality practices where they did not already exist.
Experience leading distributed or offshore engineering teams across time zones.
Security and compliance literacy for regulated buyers, including SOC 2, audit logging, SSO, data security, or secure deployment.
Strong AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in your own work and across engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

automated testingQACI/CDrelease governanceversioningcontainerizationinfrastructure-as-codedata platformsmetadatabackend systems

Soft Skills

engineering leadershipteam buildingtalent assessmentdelivery ownershipcross-team collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic planningmentorshipadaptability