ezCater is the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions – a $300+ billion market in the US alone. ezCater is purpose-built for business. ezCater's corporate food platform and flexible, scalable food solutions allow organizations to centralize and track their food spend, and fulfill everything from daily employee meals to client meetings and company all-hands. ezCater backs this up with business-grade, best-in-class, customer service and an unmatched nationwide footprint. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille, and had an up-round in December of 2021 when we were valued at $1.6 billion.

ezCater values technology, and particularly data, as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to better the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience. Check out this CBS Boston article for a glimpse into our culture.

 

As a data-driven company pursuing an IPO we’re looking for an energetic and accomplished Vice President of Data Technology, reporting directly to the Chief Data Officer (CDO), to be primarily responsible for our Data Warehousing infrastructure, architecture and Business Intelligence. 

 

This Vice President of Data Technology position will lead the engineering technology team that is  responsible for investing in our data infrastructure, warehouse and building data products that power our business from reporting and critical business analytics to the machine learning algorithms that drive our growth engine.  The Data Technology team owns data infrastructure, pipelines, the data lake and data marts, and data architecture at ezCater.  You will work alongside other Vice Presidents in Engineering in leading and developing a growing team of engineers that are accelerating our growth. Our ideal candidate will have proven, hands-on experience leading a team of data engineers, building out a team with mature processes and operations, and working with the business to create a well-defined vision and roadmap. 

What You'll Do:

• Develop and deliver the strategic roadmap for data across our growing startup including investing in our modern data infrastructure, data warehouse and data products. 
• Set and manage the SLAs for our data assets, classifying critical and non-critical systems and processes and ensuring availability and freshness of data 
• Drive the hiring and expansion of an already impressive team
• Partner with other technology leaders, our Head of Security and finance team to execute on our IPO readiness program.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, piloting new techniques within our infrastructure. Liaise and select external partners and vendors investing in new technologies and assessing total cost of ownership. 
• Coach Data Engineering Managers to support the day-to-day operations of the data engineering team, including refining and prioritizing the backlog, and streamlining workflows and processes 
• Treat data quality and data architecture as first class deliverables; Work with the team to create data pipelines, transformations, tables, buckets, schedules, DAGs, and all the other components of a mature, modern data ecosystem
• Work with stakeholders and product management to define and prioritize the data engineering roadmap
• Improve performance, efficiency, and quality wherever you can

What You'll Have:

• Experience leading a Data Infrastructure and Engineering team with a track record of delivering data at-scale for a growing business. 
• Viewpoints on industry practices with an ability to match new innovations with our growing needs. 
• Track of record of piloting and successfully adopting new technologies, with experience  negotiating with external partners on terms and implementation. 
• Hands-on software development experience in a professional setting focused on data engineering and building robust data pipelines to support batch and near-real-time data consumers
• Solid experience in Python, SQL, ETL and orchestration tools like dbt and Airflow, and especially modern cloud data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake or Redshift. Experience in navigating and utilizing services in a cloud platform, preferably AWS
• 5+ years solid experience with SQL, data modeling, and data architecture for large-scale projects in an enterprise environment
• Experience with data security and compliance requirements, ideally with IPO experience
• Comfortable managing a roadmap and diverse set of stakeholders in a fast-paced and dynamic environment 
• 10+ years of solid people management experience, including hiring and helping others grow their careers
• An interest in partnering with the broader technology leadership team to drive the overall improvement of our Engineering function
• A disposition that is friendly, flexible and pragmatic, and the desire to learn something new every day and continue to grow as a leader 

You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance. 

Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

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