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About the Role
iCapital seeks a Data Engineering Senior Vice President to lead the evolution of the enterprise data platform, powering AI, automation, analytics, and data-driven decision-making. This role defines and executes the architectural vision for a modern, AI-ready data ecosystem, overseeing platform architecture, engineering standards, and scalable data product development. The individual will shape how data supports the firm's long-term growth and innovation strategy.
Responsibilities
- Define and own iCapital's enterprise data architecture, including the Snowflake platform, semantic layer, reusable data products, and AI-ready ecosystem.
- Establish standards for data engineering, governance, security, observability, quality, and documentation.
- Own platform reliability, SLAs, DataOps practices, and incident management.
- Lead architectural strategy, tooling decisions, and platform investment recommendations.
- Develop and execute the multi-year Data Engineering roadmap aligned to business and AI priorities.
- Translate enterprise data strategy into prioritized engineering initiatives and platform capabilities.
- Build business cases for platform investments and proactively address technical debt and future scalability needs.
- Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver data products that support enterprise objectives.
- Communicate platform progress, risks, and investment decisions to executive stakeholders.
- Build and lead a high-performing Data Engineering organization and culture.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in data engineering, including 5+ years leading large-scale engineering organizations across multiple functions.
- Proven track record designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent), including architecture, security, governance, and cost optimization.
- Deep expertise establishing data engineering best practices across pipeline design, data quality, observability, data contracts, documentation, and operational support.
- Demonstrated success developing multi-year platform strategies, securing investment, prioritizing initiatives, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Experience partnering with and presenting to executive stakeholders within regulated industries, translating complex technical concepts into business impact.
- Hands-on experience with analytics engineering, semantic layer development, and modern data transformation frameworks such as dbt.
- Financial services experience within asset management, wealth management, fintech, banking, or insurance, including knowledge of regulated data environments and governance requirements.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture, performance optimization, security, and data sharing at enterprise scale.
- Knowledge of alternative investments, wealth management, fund administration, or related financial services domains.
- Experience building AI- and ML-enabled data platforms, including semantic layers, feature stores, model-serving infrastructure, or LLM-integrated architectures.
- Experience with Informatica or comparable enterprise data catalog, metadata management, and MDM platforms.
- Proven success scaling data engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth, including organizational design, hiring, and leadership development.
Skills
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- dbt
- Informatica
- Data Engineering
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Observability
- Data Quality
- Data Documentation
- DataOps
- Analytics Engineering
- Semantic Layer Development
- Metadata Management
- MDM Platforms
- AI
- ML
- LLM
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Vice President
- 12+ years of experience in data engineering
- 5+ years leading large-scale engineering organizations
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 to $250,000
Benefits
- Equity for all full-time employees
- Annual performance bonus
- Employer matched retirement plan
- Generously subsidized healthcare
- 100% employer paid dental
- 100% employer paid vision
- 100% employer paid telemedicine
- 100% employer paid virtual mental health counseling
- Parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
About the Company
- iCapital is a financial services firm.
- For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us
- Twitter: @icapitalnetwork
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc
- Awards Disclaimer: https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us/recognition/
Equal Opportunity
- iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
- We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.