Data Platform Lead

Convene Hospitality Group (CHG) is hiring a hands-on Data Platform Lead to join its Technology organization. The role owns the data platform end to end, from architecture to business modeling, and manages analytics engineers. Data platform modernization and AI-first development are top priorities. The role is a hands-on management role, open to first-time managers. Current stack includes Snowflake, dbt and Fivetran, with plans to build on Snowflake's native capabilities, roll out ThoughtSpot, and add observability.

Responsibilities

Own the data platform end to end (architecture, reliability, roadmap) across Snowflake, dbt and Fivetran; Move platform configuration from the UI into Terraform in coordination with Cloud Infrastructure; Rethink how the business is modeled, moving from source-shaped marts to domain-oriented models and setting modeling standards, naming conventions and review practices; Partner with Finance, Sales, Operations and venue leadership to turn business questions into models, metrics and definitions; Partner with product engineering on schema design, data contracts and upstream changes; Own data quality and observability, including testing standards, contracts and reconciliation checks; Own the metrics and BI layer, rolling out the BI tool and building the semantic layer with certified metrics in Snowflake semantic views; Bring conversational analytics online with natural-language querying and agents on Snowflake's native tools, with evals and guardrails; Govern the data, including access control, PII handling and documentation; Lead and grow analytics engineering, managing and hiring analytics engineers and directing contractors; Write dbt models, review PRs, debug pipelines and prototype new approaches

Requirements

7+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering or data architecture, including building a modern data platform that people rely on in production; Uses AI agents for real multi-step work such as building models, writing tests, debugging pipelines and documenting; Deep on dbt and Snowflake, including project structure, testing strategy, warehouse performance at scale, and managing the platform as code with Terraform or similar; Fluent in data modeling, with experience moving a team from source-shaped to business-shaped, domain-oriented marts and seeing the change through to adoption; Built data quality and observability practices (tests, contracts, freshness monitoring, alerting); Built a semantic layer and governed metrics, and understands what it takes to make natural-language and agent-driven analytics accurate; Worked with managed ingestion like Fivetran; Led beyond own work as a tech lead, mentored engineers, ran interview loops, or directed contractors or vendors; Explains clearly to engineers and non-engineers; High agency, sets direction, makes architecture calls and writes down reasoning

Nice to have

Rolled out ThoughtSpot or another search-driven BI tool; Unleashed an autonomous agent in the wild and built the fencing, monitoring and improvement loop around it; Modeled data from Salesforce, NetSuite or HRIS platforms; Prepared data for AI use cases such as retrieval, agents or feature pipelines; Worked in hospitality, events, real estate or another customer-centric, multi-location business

Benefits

Day-one health coverage for you and your family; 24/7 virtual care; Emotional well-being support; Fertility and family planning benefits; Generous PTO; Birthday off; Paid parental leave; Year-end holiday closure; 401K with company match; Support for education, courses and certifications; Ongoing career growth opportunities; Recognition programs; Volunteer and give-back opportunities; Annual incentive performance bonus (Total Target Compensation $198,000 – $220,000)