Overview
On Site
USD 170,000.00 - 250,000.00 per year
Contract - Independent
Skills
Data Science
Semantics
Decision-making
Access Control
Lifecycle Management
Use Cases
Pricing
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Workflow
Analytics
Strategic Leadership
Collaboration
Roadmaps
Business Strategy
Team Building
Operational Excellence
Innovation
Mentorship
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Testing
Cloud Computing
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Master Data Management
Mobile Device Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Business-to-business
Electronic Commerce
Manufacturing
Distribution
Data Engineering
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Storage
Snow Flake Schema
Real-time
Data Processing
API
Streaming
Artificial Intelligence
Vector Databases
Machine Learning (ML)
Communication
English
Internet
Leadership
Data Governance
Privacy
Marketing
Job Details
Location: Glendale Heights, IL
Salary: $170,000.00 USD Annually - $250,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Job Title: Head of Data Platform Engineering
Location: Addison, IL
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
Seeking a visionary and strategic leader to build and scale our modern data and engineering platform. This role is foundational to our AI and digital transformation efforts, enabling real-time, reusable, and governed data across the enterprise. You will lead platform architecture, data engineering, integration, and governance-partnering closely with product and data science teams to support AI-driven innovation.
Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Data Engineering
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Salary: $170,000.00 USD Annually - $250,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Job Title: Head of Data Platform Engineering
Location: Addison, IL
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
Seeking a visionary and strategic leader to build and scale our modern data and engineering platform. This role is foundational to our AI and digital transformation efforts, enabling real-time, reusable, and governed data across the enterprise. You will lead platform architecture, data engineering, integration, and governance-partnering closely with product and data science teams to support AI-driven innovation.
Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Data Engineering
- Design and implement a scalable, cloud-native data platform (Google Cloud Platform preferred) for real-time ingestion, transformation, and serving.
- Architect data pipelines and semantic layers to support AI, ML, and real-time decision-making.
- Promote API-first and event-driven integration patterns across ERP, commerce, and operational systems.
- Collaborate with Data Governance teams to operationalize stewardship, lineage, and access controls.
- Lead implementation and lifecycle management of MDM platforms across customer, product, vendor, and location domains.
- Build engineering capabilities (catalogs, observability, policies as code) to support federated governance.
- Deliver infrastructure that enables scalable AI use cases (e.g., personalization, pricing, virtual agents).
- Ensure AI outputs are consumable within ERP, CRM, and operational workflows.
- Evolve the platform based on feedback from data product, analytics, and AI teams.
- Develop and communicate a clear technology roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy and AI initiatives.
- Act as a bridge between IT, product, AI, and business units to ensure alignment.
- Participate in governance bodies such as the Data Council and Architecture Review Board.
- Build and lead a high-performing team of platform engineers, data engineers, integration specialists, and MDM experts.
- Foster a culture of innovation, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
- Implement best practices in CI/CD, testing, security, and observability.
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, platform architecture, or enterprise data leadership.
- Proven success building cloud-native data platforms (Google Cloud Platform preferred; Azure or AWS acceptable).
- Experience implementing MDM and data governance tools in large-scale environments.
- Strong track record of enabling AI/ML teams through robust data infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of ERP and operational system integrations in B2B, e-commerce, manufacturing, or distribution.
- Expertise in data engineering tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark) and scalable storage solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake).
- Familiarity with real-time data processing, API design, event streaming, and AI-enabling infrastructure (e.g., vector databases, ML pipelines, feature stores).
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal).
- Reliable, high-speed internet connection for remote work.
- Experience with platform-as-a-product mindset.
- Prior leadership in cross-functional enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Contributions to data governance councils or architecture review boards.
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Contact:
This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Please apply with us today!
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