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This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.\nOur global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.\nAlpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.\nOur Team Members:\nWe're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!\nWe're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values-Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable-and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.\nYour Role:\nWe are looking for a Head of Data Platform to lead Alpaca’s growing Platform Engineering team. You will own the data strategy, the team’s execution, and the department’s roadmap.\nThe Data department serves every function at Alpaca: it powers partner invoicing and revenue attribution, provides the analytical foundation for sales, product, and compliance, and operates the data platform that processes hundreds of millions of events daily. You will manage three team leads, balancing operational delivery (invoicing, embedded analytics, regulatory reporting) with strategic bets (self-service warehouse, AI-powered analytics, enterprise search).\nThis is a player-coach role. You will set direction for the team while staying close enough to the technical details to make architecture decisions, unblock your leads, and represent data’s capabilities to the executive team.\nThings You Get To Do:\nLead and develop Platform Engineering & ETL\nManage leads, set priorities, and ensure delivery.\nOwn the Data Lakehouse architecture: Trino, Iceberg/GCS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redpanda CDC, dbt.\nMake build-vs-buy decisions on tooling.\nDrive partner invoicing accuracy and evolution: ensure invoicing logic is versioned, reproducible, and scales with new pricing mechanisms and product launches.\nDeliver embedded analytics: expose warehouse data to partners via BrokerDash, SSR pipelines, and API-based reporting. Own row-level security and entitlements.\nSupport product launches with data change management: coordinate data impact analysis for new products (fixed income, global stocks, perps, 24/5 trading) across downstream datasets, dashboards, and reverse ETL.\nAccelerate self-service: move the organization toward self-serve analytics via semantic layers, data catalogues, and conversational BI so the data team can shift from ad-hoc queries to strategic projects.\nGuide AI/ML enablement: oversee enterprise AI search, agent-based workflow automation, and LLM-powered analytics. Help balance vendor solutions with in-house development.\nCollaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate business needs into data products.\nManage infrastructure costs: keep data + cloud cost ratio under target as AUC grows.\nOperate production systems: own on-call processes, incident response, and SLOs for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.\nWho You Are (Must-Haves):\n8+ years in data engineering, including 3+ years managing data teams (leads + ICs).\nDeep experience with modern data stack: dbt, Trino/Presto or equivalent query engines, Apache Iceberg or similar table formats, cloud object storage.\nHands-on experience with ETL/ELT patterns at scale: CDC (Debezium/Kafka), batch (Airflow/dbt), streaming, and reverse ETL.\nTrack record of building self-service analytics capabilities for non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience with financial data: trading, invoicing, revenue attribution, or regulatory reporting in fintech or financial services.\nProficiency in Python and SQL. Comfortable reading code, reviewing PRs, and making architecture decisions.\nExperience managing distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones.\nStrong stakeholder management: you can translate between executive priorities and engineering execution.\nExperience with GCP (GKE, GCS, BigQuery migration), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.\nWho You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):\nExperience with brokerage or broker-dealer operations (clearing, settlement, market making, reconciliation).\nFamiliarity with LLM/AI tooling: MCP, vector databases, enterprise search, conversational BI (WrenAI, Cube).\nBackground in compliance analytics (AML/Actimize, KYC, margin calls).\nExposure to open-source data catalogues (OpenMetadata, Collate) and data quality frameworks.\nHow We Take Care of You:\nCompetitive Salary & Stock Options\nHealth Benefits\nNew Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500\nMonthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card\nAlpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.\n\nRecruitment Privacy Policy","description_format":"text","description_chars":5695,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-03-21T01:28:06Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.353,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":221,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/alpaca-director-of-data","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/alpaca-director-of-data.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T12:22:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16378,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3826},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3826"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Falpaca-director-of-data"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Falpaca-director-of-data"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Falpaca-director-of-data"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/alpaca-director-of-data\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Falpaca-director-of-data"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":11964}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"alpaca.markets","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":11964},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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