Director of Engineering, Data

The posting, as BuildOps wrote it

At BuildOps, we build software for modern commercial contractors, from service management through project delivery. We care deeply about the mission and look for people who are driven, self motivated, and excited by fast moving, high ownership environments.

Data sits at the center of BuildOps' AI first strategy. The operational data our customers generate on BuildOps is a long term advantage, but only if it is clean, reliable, and well governed. As Director of Engineering, Data, you will build and lead our unified Data & AI engineering function. You will own the platforms, pipelines, quality standards, and operating discipline that power AI and ML products and help customers trust BuildOps as their system of record.

Reporting to the CTO, you will help define BuildOps' data strategy over the next three to five years and shape how we build data powered products. This is a foundational leadership role for someone who can think long term about architecture while staying close to the work. You have built and scaled data organizations before and know how to take a team from early stage scrappiness to operational excellence.

What You'll Do

• Own BuildOps' data platform and architecture end to end, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and an ML and streaming strategy that evolves with the business and scales efficiently
• Build scalable, repeatable customer and partner data onboarding capabilities that bring data into BuildOps quickly and reliably, reducing time to first value
• Run data systems with production grade discipline, including monitoring, alerting, SLAs, incident response, lineage, freshness, and clear ownership for critical datasets
• Create the data foundation required for AI and ML products, with accurate, well documented inputs today and the right training, inference, and feature infrastructure as those products mature
• Establish governance that supports speed, including access controls, data classification, audit trails, PII handling, and practical data contracts that teams can depend on
• Hire, develop, and lead a strong data engineering team, and establish the right operating rhythms across planning, on call, and stakeholder intake

What We Look For

• 10+ years in data or software engineering, including experience building and scaling teams of 10+ engineers, with a track record of hiring well, growing leaders, and leading through managers as well as individual contributors
• Deep hands on experience with modern data platforms, including a cloud warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake or Databricks, dbt and ELT patterns, orchestration tools like Airflow, and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, with AWS experience strongly preferred
• Direct experience building data systems that support production ML use cases, not just analytics, with an understanding of feature stores, training data, real time inference, and the tradeoffs involved in building versus buying ML platform capabilities
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This is your chance to be part of a rocketship. We’re fresh off a $1 billion valuation and a $127M Series C funding round (part of over $275M raised to date) led by industry-leading investors like Meritech Capital, BOND, and SE Ventures, backed by Schneider Electric ( Reuters , TechCrunch , LA Business Journal ) . Our latest investors join our team of industry heavyweights like Next47, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, former Salesforce President Gavin Patterson, and Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols. Their investment is fueling our aggressive growth and our commitment to equipping contractors with AI-driven tools to conquer chaos, boost efficiency, skyrocket profitability, and ultimately, deliver exceptional service.

At BuildOps, we’re changing the game and doing the best work of our careers. You’ll be a key player in a company that’s truly making a difference for the backbone of our economy. If you’re ready to tackle big challenges, work with a passionate team, and build something extraordinary, BuildOps is the place for you. 🚀

BuildOps is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

BuildOps will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act pursuant to applicable local and state laws.

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