Data Strategy Tech Lead
About The Position
SentiLink is seeking a Data Strategy Tech Lead with a technical background and deep understanding of data to lead internal initiatives within the Tech organization. This role will focus on building and maintaining SentiLink’s core internal technology, including critical datasets, internal services, and underlying platforms. The position requires strong product stewardship for data-intensive and interdependent systems, ensuring clarity, quality, and coordinated execution. The lead will work on efforts to improve data acquisition, structuring, and operationalization, creating internal assets for current products and future innovation. This role involves applying product discipline and project leadership across engineering, data science, solutions analytics, and product teams. The individual will partner with cross-functional teams to understand system and dataset usage, translate needs into requirements, prioritize improvements, and drive delivery from concept to adoption.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with data-heavy or platform-oriented products, with a focus on data platform.
- Hands-on experience working with large datasets, ideally in distributed or big-data environments (e.g., Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, similar).
- Strong understanding of big data concepts, data pipelines, data cleaning/normalization, and data modeling.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering, data science, and analytics teams on deeply technical problem spaces.
- Experience driving large internal initiatives with multiple stakeholders and managing substantial cross-functional dependencies.
- Proven ability to structure ambiguous requirements, prioritize effectively, and deliver predictable execution on complex technical programs.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate alignment across teams.
- A forward-looking, durability-focused mindset—ensuring internal systems and datasets are built for scale, maintainability, and long-term adaptability.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for internal technical initiatives, with a strong focus on data‐intensive systems and foundational datasets.
- Lead cross-functional efforts to improve the quality, reliability, and usability of internal systems, including datasets, shared services, and internal platforms.
- Drive long-term initiatives to future-proof internal data and technology assets, ensuring they scale with evolving product, analytics, and operational needs.
- Partner with engineering, data science, solutions analytics, and product stakeholders to understand use cases, clarify requirements, and identify interdependencies.
- Manage prioritization across competing internal demands, balancing immediate impact with long-term strategic value.
- Translate complex internal needs into clear, actionable specifications and ensure alignment across teams.
- Apply structured project management to initiatives with multiple teams, ambiguous problem spaces, and intricate technical dependencies.
- Define and track success metrics for internal systems and datasets, such as quality, completeness, latency, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Communicate roadmap, progress, risks, and tradeoffs to internal stakeholders at all levels.
Benefits
- Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- Regular company-wide in-person events
- Home office stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
