About the Role
We are hiring the founding lead for data products and platform. This senior, hands-on builder will own how the firm defines, governs, and ships its core investment data, and will grow a small team. You will sit at the center of a federated model, turning existing energy into trusted, shared, and governed data products.
Responsibilities
- Establish the firm's first real intake, prioritization, and roadmap for data work.
- Reconcile divergent data definitions into a single set of canonical, documented entities.
- Own the data-product lifecycle, turning recurring needs into governed shared products.
- Drive adoption of the shared data layer.
- Build and ship production dbt models in Python and SQL, and design serving and semantic layers.
- Harden the platform with alerting, workload isolation, and secure ingestion.
- Partner on market data and internal reporting builds, and data consolidation.
- Build and lead a small, senior data team, mentoring engineers and analysts.
- Establish the operating model for the central data team.
- Serve as the firm's senior voice on data, translating between business, compliance, and engineering.
Requirements
- 8+ years in data, with a blend of hands-on data engineering and data-product ownership.
- Deep buy-side / asset-management data domain knowledge.
- Expert SQL and Python; production experience with Snowflake and dbt (or close equivalents).
- Demonstrated ownership of a canonical data model or data standards across multiple consuming teams.
- A track record of building and leading a small data team, or clear readiness to do so.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- ETF / 1940-Act fund experience.
- Familiarity with SEC recordkeeping (Rule 204-2), Regulation S-P, 15(c) board reporting, and Tailored Shareholder Reports.
- Modern-stack depth: data catalog, orchestration, managed ingestion, BI, Snowflake Cortex and semantic views.
- Hands-on with AI-assisted engineering and building self-serve layers over governed data.
- AWS and Terraform / infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Experience standing up data governance in a regulated environment.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Snowflake
- dbt
- AWS
- Terraform
- OpenMetadata
- Atlan
- Airflow
- MWAA
- Sigma
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Kiro
- AWS Bedrock
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Founding Lead
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with annual performance-based bonus
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- Professional development and continuing education opportunities
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellness programs and employee assistance program (EAP)
About the Company
- Global X was founded in 2008. For more than fifteen years, our mission has been empowering investors with unexplored and intelligent solutions. Our product lineup features a wide range of ETF strategies and $78.1 billion in assets under management. While we are distinguished for our Thematic Growth, Income, and International Access ETFs, we also offer Core and other funds to suit a wide range of investment objectives. Global X is a member of Mirae Asset Financial Group (“Mirae Asset”), a global leader in financial services, with $803 billion in assets under management worldwide.
