Director, Engineering – Business Systems

🔥 20 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Business Operations

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Chainalysis Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 $170M Series F on 2022-05

API • Fintech • Cybersecurity

Chainalysis is the leading blockchain data platform that provides blockchain intelligence solutions for various sectors, including law enforcement, regulators, financial institutions, and centralized exchanges. The company helps organizations tackle crypto challenges, ensure compliance with regulations, and mitigate risks associated with cryptocurrency transactions through its innovative solutions and insights. With an R&D hub known as Chainalysis Labs, the company is dedicated to advancing blockchain intelligence and supporting a safer digital economy.

📋 Description

• Lead the systems and engineering organization through a shift from a traditional IT and administration-centric organization to one centered on platform and data engineering • Own the technical architecture, design, and delivery roadmap across business systems, enterprise data, and integrations • Manage and grow systems and engineering-track managers and direct reports through technical mentorship and career pathing • Establish and codify standards, style guides, workflows, ceremonies, and engineering and systems practices into a coherent operating model leveraging AI and agentic processes • Partner with Product, Success, and Program Management to prioritize and deliver the BADaS roadmap • Translate business, process, and product requirements into technical scope, staffing, and sequencing decisions • Act as the internal technical counterpart to vendors and partners, reviewing architecture proposals, approving technical designs, and owning technical builds • Own security, RBAC, and data-governance posture of BADaS platforms, especially audit and access-control risk • Partner with engineering leaders across Chainalysis on best practices and reuse of existing platforms, components, solutions, and codebases

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software, platform, or data engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and engineering managers • Strong organizational leadership, including hiring, career pathing, and building succession depth across a multi-manager organization • Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, transformation-in-progress environment • Demonstrated ownership of team-based technical architecture and engineering practices, including repo management, CI/CD, code review standards, and test/regression discipline • Experience managing a technically mixed organization of engineers, data engineers, and platform/systems administrators • Data-first orientation focused on data architecture and flow • Strong working fluency in modern, event-based, service-oriented architectures using server-side JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js in a primarily serverless AWS environment • Deep experience with REST/GraphQL API architectures and authorization strategies including OAuth and JWT • Familiarity with SQL, Python, dbt/data modeling, pipeline orchestration, batch versus near-real-time ETLs and reverse ETLs, and medallion architectures • Experience with infrastructure-as-code platforms such as Terraform for DevOps and cloud infrastructure