Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data

September 28

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1848 Ventures, backed by Westfield

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Insurance • Cybersecurity

1848 Ventures is a company supported by Westfield that provides a wide range of insurance services. They offer business insurance tailored to increase operational efficiency and security for both large and small businesses. Additionally, they provide personal insurance solutions for home and auto to protect individual lifestyles. With specialized coverages developed for the unique needs of the agricultural sector, and a variety of surety bonds, 1848 Ventures aims to ensure that their clients' projects and obligations are met with peace of mind. Their offerings also include cybersecurity insurance and workers' compensation to safeguard businesses and support employees.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🔒 Cybersecurity

📋 Description

• Own the platform architecture for core services and data: ingestion → transformation → storage → serving → observability • Define data contracts and schemas between ingestion, transformations (e.g., dbt), ML features, and downstream applications • Establish standards for orchestration, CI/CD, code quality, documentation, and reproducibility across platform and data repos • Set and enforce SLOs for reliability, latency, and data freshness; implement guardrails and automated quality checks • Drive cost-aware design and performance tuning for batch and streaming workloads • Translate the roadmap into scoped work with crisp acceptance criteria, success metrics, and rollout plans • Prioritize, sequence, and unblock; ship iteratively with progressive delivery and clear rollback paths • Coordinate cross-team dependencies (Product, ML, Integrations) to keep the value stream flowing end-to-end • Build and operate a pragmatic observability stack (logs, metrics, tracing, data quality monitors) with trusted alerting • Partner with Integrations on PMS/booking-engine data flows; design resilient interfaces and backfills • Shape the team (platform engineers, data engineers, integrations engineers); partner with recruiting; run a structured loop • Document engineering standards, runbooks, READMEs, and data lineage; promote a docs-as-code culture • Provide weekly progress, risks, and asks to the CTO; share monthly demos/notes with broader stakeholders • Player–coach role reporting to the CTO and collaborating closely with Product, ML, and Customer Success

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years building and operating production platforms and data systems in B2B SaaS • 2+ years leading engineers • Strong technical depth in several of: Python, SQL, orchestration (e.g., Prefect/Airflow), ELT (e.g., dbt), cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake/BigQuery), event streaming (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis), containerization and service orchestration (e.g., Docker, ECS/Kubernetes), infra-as-code (e.g., Terraform) • Proven track record setting engineering standards (CI/CD, code review, trunk-based dev, testing strategy) and delivering reliable, observable systems at reasonable cost • Experience defining and meeting SLOs; comfortable with incident management and continuous improvement • Comfortable partnering on third-party integrations; design resilient interfaces and plan for schema drift and backfills • Clear, concise communicator who can simplify complexity, make trade-offs explicit, and align teams • Start-up mindset: bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to be both strategic and hands-on

🏖️ Benefits

• This role is remote. • Travel may be needed for customer discovery, team building, and/or networking. • Flexibility is key; we value in-person connections. • We empower our team to innovate, grow, and succeed. • Mission-driven work empowering independent inns and small hotels. • Allocate learning time/budget (professional development)