ClarityPay ยท 3 weeks ago
Head of Data Strategy / Chief Data Officer Director / VP
New York City
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$175K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expClarityPay is a fast-growing fintech company focused on empowering enterprise merchants with smarter pay-over-time solutions. They are seeking a Head of Data Strategy to lead the transformation of their data strategy and architecture, overseeing the migration to a modern AWS ecosystem and establishing frameworks for data governance and machine learning operations.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Define and execute the roadmap to modernize our data architecture
Lead the transition from suboptimal legacy systems to a best-in-class cloud environment, ensuring our infrastructure supports hyper-scale analytics and real-time ML inference
Architect and implement a robust data lakehouse solution using the AWS ecosystem (S3, Glue, Redshift/Athena), and potentially onboard Databricks
Ensure the pipes are clean, reliable, near real-time, and scalable
Build the rails for our models to run on
Design the CI/CD pipelines for Machine Learning (using tools like SageMaker), ensuring that our underwriting and operational models can be deployed, monitored, and retrained with minimal friction
Establish the 'rules of the road.'
Implement rigorous data governance standards, ensuring data lineage, security, and quality control are baked into the architecture, not added as an afterthought
Champion scientific rigor in data-driven decision-making
Work with Operations, Technology, and Product to embed data signals directly into our operational workflows, moving the company from 'reporting on the past' to 'predicting the future.'
Recruit and mentor a team of high-performing data engineers and ML engineers
Foster a culture of technical excellence and curiosity
Qualification
Required
5+ years in Data Engineering or ML Engineering, with at least 4+ years in a leadership role scaling data platforms
Deep, hands-on experience with AWS Sagemaker, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and Redshift
Proficiency in Python, Spark, Distributing Computing, and SQL
Proven experience building Machine Learning Operations pipelines
Understanding of the complexities of model drift, feature stores, and inference latency
Experience with Bayesian approaches to uncertainty
Experience in architecting and implementing a robust data lakehouse solution using the AWS ecosystem (S3, Glue, Redshift/Athena)
Ability to create, maintain, audit code and contribute to the repository when necessary
Preferred
Experience implementing data governance frameworks in a regulated industry (FinTech/Banking)
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision)
401k program
Company
ClarityPay
ClarityPay is a financial services technology company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
11-50 employees
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