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Hire, coach, and develop a team of data engineers, including setting goals, delivering feedback, and managing performance. Set the technical direction and roadmap for data engineering, prioritizing work across data quality, governance, scalability, and stakeholder experience in partnership with engineering and business leadership. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
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Every decision at Formation Bio, from which drug asset to pursue to how a trial is run, is only as good as the data underneath it. As the Associate Director of Data Engineering, you'll lead the team responsible for that data platform, and this role is about multiplying their impact: you're accountable for the pipelines, warehouse, and data products they build, for how fast and how well they build them, and for creating the conditions in which the engineers who build and operate them can grow, perform at a high level, and sustain that performance over time.
This is an AI-native engineering organization, and for this team that means building the data platform itself in an AI-native way. We expect you and your team to be fluent, fast, and always pushing the edge of what modern AI tools, including agentic coding systems, can do as a core part of how the team builds pipelines, models data, investigates data quality issues, and improves engineering workflows. You should coach your team to treat AI as a permanent force multiplier, not a novelty, while instilling the judgment needed to validate its output and operate trustworthy data systems, especially where clinical and regulated data...
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