Head of Data Platforms
About The Position
The Head of Data Platform is responsible for defining, building, and operating the enterprise data platform, with Snowflake as the core cloud data foundation. This role owns the end-to-end data platform strategy, including ingestion, modeling, governance, security, analytics enablement, and operational reliability and ensures trusted, scalable data is available across the business. The role partners closely with Finance, Marketing, Operations, Product, and Technology leaders to enable analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across enterprise and athlete-facing domains.
Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering, analytics platforms, or related fields
- 5+ years in technical leadership or people management roles
- Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake in an enterprise environment
- Strong understanding of cloud data architecture, governance, and analytics enablement
- Proven ability to partner with Finance and business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap centered on Snowflake
- Define and maintain logical and physical data architecture (raw, staging, curated layers)
- Establish platform standards for ingestion, modeling, and consumption
- Ensure platform readiness for BI, analytics, and AI/ML use cases
- Executive ownership of Snowflake environments, security model, and cost management
- Define best practices for ingestion pipelines, schema design, RBAC, and performance
- Partner with Security and IT on privacy, compliance, and data protection
- Oversee ingestion of enterprise systems including registration, eCommerce, finance, inventory, and CRM
- Ensure reliable, testable, and well-documented data pipelines
- Establish development standards, CI/CD, and operational support models
- Own the data and analytics foundation for core Enterprise KPIs
- Partner with business leaders to define, standardize, and certify enterprise metrics
- Establish authoritative data models and semantic definitions in Snowflake
- Ensure executive dashboards consume certified, governed datasets
- Oversee data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and metric integrity
- Enable scalable self-service analytics with strong governance guardrails
- Act as the single point of accountability for enterprise KPI data integrity
- Align platform priorities to executive reporting and strategic initiatives
- Present platform readiness, risks, and KPI trust indicators to leadership
- Partner with BI and Finance teams to evolve KPI definitions over time
- Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and respectful team environment by demonstrating professionalism, accountability, and collaboration in all interactions.
- Embrace IRONMAN’s BE ICONIC mindset by bringing an athlete-first perspective, taking ownership of work, and showing pride in delivering exceptional experiences.
- Communicate openly and constructively with teammates and cross-functional partners to support efficient execution and problem solving.
- Demonstrate adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset, learning from each event and contributing ideas to improve processes and experiences.
- Act as a culture carrier onsite and offsite, recognizing that individual behaviors directly shape the athlete, volunteer, and team experience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
