Director of Engineering, Data

Boulevard is a client experience platform for appointment-based self-care businesses. They are seeking a Director of Engineering - Data to build and lead the technical foundation for Boulevard's data ecosystem, focusing on data infrastructure, governance, and machine learning capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the long-term technical strategy for Boulevard's data platform, ensuring scalability and reliability as we grow
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data platform engineers, establishing best practices and fostering a culture of excellence
• Partner closely with Product Management, Product Engineering, and the Data Insights team to understand requirements and deliver platform capabilities that enable customer-facing data products and internal insights
• Drive architectural decisions for data systems, balancing current needs with future flexibility and scalability
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational practices that ensure high availability and performance of data systems
• Define and implement data governance policies, security standards, and quality frameworks across the organization
• Work with leadership to align data platform roadmap with business objectives and technical strategy

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in data platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in building scalable data processing systems
• 5+ years of people management experience, including managing senior engineers and technical leads
• Proven track record of building data platforms and ML systems that support both internal analytics and customer-facing data products
• Experience delivering customer-facing reporting, dashboards, and analytics features in collaboration with Product teams
• Strong experience with modern data stack technologies (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, etc.)
• Deep understanding of data governance, quality frameworks, and security best practices
• A strategic mindset with the ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps, balancing short-term execution with long-term vision