Director, Platform Development

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core backend services and data platform components using Node.js and TypeScript
• Establish and evolve platform architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards
• Own and triage intake requests, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health
• Partner closely with governance, analytics, and downstream consumers to ensure the platform supports: Scalable data ingestion and access patterns
• Lakehouse-style architectures
• ELT pipelines
• Metadata, lineage, and governance requirements
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, repeatable, and observable deployments
• Set expectations and best practices around: Object-oriented design and proven design patterns
• Test-driven development (TDD) and strong automated test coverage
• Secure development lifecycle (SDL) principles
• Hire, mentor, and manage engineers as the team grows
• Conduct code and design reviews, providing clear technical guidance
• Collaborate effectively in a matrixed enterprise environment with both legacy systems and modern platforms
• Gradually transition from primary IC to people and execution leadership as the platform matures
• Deep foundation in software engineering fundamentals, including: Object-oriented programming
• Design patterns
• API and service design
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, including: Lakehouse architectures
• ELT pipelines
• Data governance, metadata, and lineage
• Experience building modular or microservice-based systems
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineers (formal people management experience preferred, but not required)
• Strong commitment to code quality, testing, and automation
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership in a lean, fast-moving environment
• Strong communicator who can translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience with ML platforms or services (e.g., Databricks, AWS Bedrock)
• Familiarity with analytics and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar)
• Experience working in media, streaming, or large-scale enterprise environments
• Prior experience modernizing or integrating legacy systems into cloud-native platforms
• Additional Requirements:
• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-Versant worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.
• We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
• If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your

Benefits

Additional Information

Versant Media's Data Platforms team is the central data store across the enterprise. We unify disparate systems into a secure, well-governed, real-time data environment that powers downstream products, analytics, and content delivery experiences. We are seeking a Director, Platform Development to lead the design, buildout, and evolution of our modern data platform. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable writing production code, setting architectural direction, and managing a small but growing team. In the near term, this role will be a key individual contributor responsible for building foundational platform capabilities. Over time, the focus will shift toward people leadership, planning, and execution management as the team scales. This role reports to the VP of Data Platforms and is expected to act as a technical and operational anchor for the organization.

Your Match

How well this role fits your profile.

Company Intel

What employees say

Worked at Versant3? Share your experience