Accrete is looking for a Director of Data & Platform of Engineering, responsible for leading the Data and Platform solutions. Accrete’s Data and Platform Engineering is a team of architects to build and manage Accrete’s data storage, data workflows and pipelines and machine learning implementations, infrastructure as a service offerings, continuous integration and continuous deployment processes. Reporting to our VP of Engineering and will work closely with senior leaders of Accrete’s Knowledge, Product Management, Finance, and Information Security departments, as well as with technical leads and architects from across Engineering.
Accrete is a dual use AI software product company that sells into both government and private enterprise sectors. We create AI software, enabling our customers to make better decisions, faster. Accrete is on a mission to create AI so powerful it amplifies human reasoning and enables enterprises to grow in previously unimaginable ways. Prior to launching Accrete in 2017, Prashant Bhuyan, Accrete’s Founder and CEO, spent over a decade in high-frequency trading where he and a core team experimented with and developed AI technology that ultimately became the early underpinnings of Accrete.
To learn more about Accrete, please visit our website: https://www.accrete.ai/
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of highly-talented Platform Engineers, supporting Accrete cloud operations, continuous integration and deployment, development operations, and infrastructure-as-a-service
- Lead a team of highly-talented Data Engineers, supporting Accrete data workflows, including batch processing, streaming analytics, data warehousing, graph analytics, artificial intelligence deployment
- Develop and execute on a strategic direction for the Platform Engineering and Data Engineering teams, as relates to the Accrete company strategy
- Champion Platform Engineering and Data Engineering interests at the executive level
- Dive into code on an as-needed basis to support the team with hands-on delivery
Qualifications:
- 10 + years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data engineering, CI/CD tools, infrastructure-as-code for cloud-native deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, and SaaS knowledge.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in big data, using technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka or equivalent
- 4-5 years of experience managing a team size greater than 5
- Hands-on experience with designing and implementing data warehouses e.g. RedShift, Snowflake etc and associated services on cloud
- Delivered a scalable cloud based product
- Expertise with a data-oriented programming language such as Python, Scala, Clojure, Julia, or similar
- Experience with defining and setting up effective monitoring for data and platform services and solutions
- Security oriented mindset and experience with DevSecOps
- Excellent communication skills to relate to employees at all levels of the organization
- Excellent team building and collaborative style of leadership working with stakeholders across the organization and within teams
- Enthusiasm, energy, and optimism about the future of artificial intelligence and the desire to build incredible AI products
Benefits & Perks
- Fortune 500 level core benefits package: health, dental, vision, Rx, long-term disability, short-term disability, life insurance, 401(k)
- Hybrid remote work policy – three mandatory days in the office per week
- Unlimited PTO
- Company happy hours, team bonding with bowling, tennis, and more
Accrete is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary Range: $200-240k