Head of Data Platforms

The IRONMAN Group

Head of Data Platforms responsible for managing enterprise data strategy and operations. Leading the data platform vision with Snowflake for analytics and governance at The IRONMAN Group.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap centered on Snowflake
Define and maintain logical and physical data architecture (raw, staging, curated layers)
Establish platform standards for ingestion, modeling, and consumption
Ensure platform readiness for BI, analytics, and AI/ML use cases
Executive ownership of Snowflake environments, security model, and cost management
Define best practices for ingestion pipelines, schema design, RBAC, and performance
Partner with Security and IT on privacy, compliance, and data protection
Lead a small, high-impact Data Platform team (6–8 roles)
Oversee ingestion of enterprise systems including registration, eCommerce, finance, inventory, and CRM
Ensure reliable, testable, and well-documented data pipelines
Establish development standards, CI/CD, and operational support models
Own the data and analytics foundation for core Enterprise KPIs
Partner with business leaders to define, standardize, and certify enterprise metrics
Establish authoritative data models and semantic definitions in Snowflake
Ensure executive dashboards consume certified, governed datasets
Oversee data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and metric integrity
Enable scalable self-service analytics with strong governance guardrails
Act as the single point of accountability for enterprise KPI data integrity
Align platform priorities to executive reporting and strategic initiatives
Present platform readiness, risks, and KPI trust indicators to leadership
Partner with BI and Finance teams to evolve KPI definitions over time

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in data engineering, analytics platforms, or related fields
5+ years in technical leadership or people management roles
Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake in an enterprise environment
Strong understanding of cloud data architecture, governance, and analytics enablement
Proven ability to partner with Finance and business stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

data architecturedata ingestiondata modelingdata pipelinesCI/CDRBACdata qualityanalytics enablementKPI definitionssemantic definitions

Soft Skills

technical leadershippeople managementpartnershipcommunicationaccountabilitystrategic alignmentpresentation skillsteam leadershipcollaborationgovernance