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VP of Data
Location: Remote (US & CST Preferred)
About the Company:
We are a rapidly scaling fintech organization building real-time payments infrastructure for digital and interactive applications. Our technology enables developers to embed financial capabilities directly into their products, creating seamless and engaging user experiences. The company operates in a highly regulated environment, holds full licensing in major regions, and is backed by top-tier investors. We are entering our next stage of scale — expanding our platform, maturing our data systems, and preparing to launch new payments products globally.
If you thrive in a fast -paced, hands on startup environment and understand why high-fidelity data matters -this is the right company for you!
This is a senior data role in the organization, responsible for:
- Data Engineering
- Data Infrastructure
- Business Intelligence
You will own the systems that power compliance, payments accuracy, product intelligence, financial reporting, and large-scale developer integrations. This role directly shapes how the company scales and launches its next generation of payments offerings.
Qualifications:
- 7–10 years of experience in Data Engineering, with demonstrated success building and scaling modern data ecosystems
- Deep expertise in AWS, including data warehousing, compute, storage, IAM, and security best practices
- Strong Python development skills, with experience creating ETL/ELT pipelines and integrations from the ground up
- Advanced Terraform proficiency, with a background managing complex, production-grade infrastructure-as-code
- Proven ability to design, implement, and own enterprise-grade data warehouses, including modeling, schema design, optimization, and long-term maintenance
- Strong foundation in data modeling, governance, observability, quality frameworks, and compliance-focused architectures
- Hands-on technical leader comfortable operating in high-growth, fast-moving environments, owning both strategy and execution
- Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Ability to define and drive a long-term data platform roadmap, including tooling, architecture, and team evolution
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
- Experience in payments, fintech, gaming, or crypto-enabled systems, especially environments requiring high accuracy, compliance, and real-time data flows
What You Will Do
- Own, modernize, and scale the entire data engineering ecosystem
- Build highly reliable, production-grade data systems that meet stringent regulatory and accuracy requirements
- Architect robust warehousing solutions, modeling layers, and data governance frameworks
- Lead and expand the Data Engineering and BI functions, developing team direction and standards
- Remain hands-on with coding, infrastructure, Terraform, ETL/ELT pipelines, and core data tooling
- Define and drive the long-term roadmap for the data platform, architecture, capabilities, and team structure
Salary : $215,000 - $270,000