FormativGroup

FormativGroup

Director of Engineering - Data Platform

Remote/Austin, TX - Full-Time · Director

No sponsorship$180k-$225kDetected 6 days ago
CI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringComplianceTest AutomationAR/VRLeadership

About the role

  • We're early: a real, working product becoming a standalone business.
  • Why Join FormativGroup At FormativGroup, you'll work with people who are practical, collaborative, and focused on solving meaningful business and technology problems.
  • Candidates residing outside these states are not eligible for consideration currently.

Responsibilities

  • Experience building or rebuilding an engineering function from the ground up, especially in a startup or early-stage environment.
  • Strong AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in your own work and across engineering teams.
  • This is a build.
  • You'll partner closely with the Chief Architect, who holds the deep product IP, while bringing order to a capable distributed team.
  • ADA Specifications: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
  • You bring order without slowing momentum; you raise the floor on quality, process, and security while keeping the team building.
  • You are a trusted partner to the Chief Architect and a credible leader for engineers, product stakeholders, and executives.

Requirements

  • Engineering leadership experience
  • you have run and grown teams, managed engineers, owned delivery, and shipped real product.

Compensation

  • $180,000 - $225,000 USD

Benefits

  • Background in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government.

Company info

  • Lead the engineering function behind an early-stage data platform built for regulated enterprises.
  • At FormativGroup, we help organizations modernize the systems, data, and workflows that keep their businesses moving.
  • We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead and grow the engineering org behind a perimeter-safe data lineage and migration impact-analysis platform for regulated enterprises.
  • Push practical AI use across coding, review, testing, ops, and engineering productivity.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa currently.

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