FormativGroup - Director of Engineering - Data Platform

Remote - Austin, TX, Full-Time$180k - $225k3mo ago

Remote Director NA Insurance Fintech Director of Engineering Technical Architect Coaching Governance Data Governance

Requirements

• You will likely be successful in this role if you have: • Engineering leadership experience; you have run and grown teams, managed engineers, owned delivery, and shipped real product. • Hands-on technical depth in data platforms, metadata, backend systems, or platform engineering; enough to earn the respect of strong engineers. • Experience building or rebuilding an engineering function from the ground up, especially in a startup or early-stage environment. • Experience installing testing, QA, CI/CD, release process, or quality practices where they did not already exist. • Experience leading distributed or offshore engineering teams across time zones. • Security and compliance literacy for regulated buyers, including SOC 2, audit logging, SSO, data security, or secure deployment. • Strong AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in your own work and across engineering teams. • How You Work • You are a player-coach: technical enough to go deep, practical enough to ship, and comfortable getting into the work when needed. • You operate with incomplete information and define the path when there is not one. • You bring order without slowing momentum; you raise the floor on quality, process, and security while keeping the team building. • Experience taking an early-stage product to enterprise-grade maturity. • Background in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government. • Familiarity with perimeter/on-prem deployment, lineage, metadata, graph data, or migration impact-analysis problems. • What Success Looks Like • The team has clear ownership, a stronger delivery rhythm, and a credible roadmap-to-release model. • Testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning are in place without slowing product momentum. • The product is moving toward enterprise-grade readiness for regulated buyers. • You are a trusted partner to the Chief Architect and a credible leader for engineers, product stakeholders, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed engineering team across platform/product engineering, connectors, QA, DevOps/infra, AI implementation, data governance, and support. • Own delivery, quality, release discipline, and execution of the technical roadmap. • Install engineering discipline where it's thin: automated testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning. • Drive repeatable, perimeter-safe deployments, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, secure deployment, and SOC 2 readiness. • Partner with the Chief Architect on the connector framework, canonical metadata model, architecture decisions, and product IP. • Build the team: assess current talent, retain the strong, hire the gaps, and align the team plan to the roadmap. • Push practical AI use across coding, review, testing, ops, and engineering productivity.

Benefits

• At FormativGroup, you’ll work with people who are practical, collaborative, and focused on solving meaningful business and technology problems. We’re growing, which means you’ll have opportunities to contribute ideas, work closely with experienced leaders, and help shape how we deliver for clients. • Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa currently. • To be considered for this position, candidates must reside in one of the following U.S. states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI, and Washington DC. Candidates residing outside these states are not eligible for consideration currently. • FormativGroup operates within the critical middle layer of business technology, where applications and systems connect infrastructure to business processes. We are specialists who help the middle market take full advantage of their technology investments with deep, industry-centric expertise, all in one place, to unify fragmented systems. With deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, system integration, AI, and data strategy, we bridge the gap between business goals and modern platforms.