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Director, Engineering & Business Systems

AI summary of the role

Director-level role leading a small engineering and business systems organization through a transformation from IT/admin-centric to platform and data engineering, with a focus on AI-driven headless architectures.

What you’ll do

  • Lead the shift from traditional IT/admin-centric org to platform and data engineering.
  • Own technical architecture, design, and delivery roadmap across business systems, enterprise data, and integrations.
  • Manage and grow engineering managers and direct reports, including mentorship and career pathing.
  • Establish engineering standards and operating model leveraging AI and agentic processes.

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years in software, platform, or data engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and managers.
  • Strong organizational leadership with experience building succession depth in multi-manager orgs.
  • Experience managing a technically mixed org (engineers, data engineers, platform/systems admins).
  • Deep experience with serverless AWS, Node.js/TypeScript, REST/GraphQL, OAuth/JWT.

Technologies

Node.js · TypeScript · AWS Lambda · Step Functions · Terraform · GraphQL · dbt · Databricks · Workato · Fivetran · Salesforce · NetSuite

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis provides blockchain intelligence software, data, and services for investigations, crypto compliance, fraud prevention, and web3 security.

Series F · 500–1000 people

Source and classification

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Must be CST or EST The Engineering and Business Systems team works collaboratively across Chainalysis’ Business Automation, Data and Systems organization to ensure that core business systems and platforms enable business policies and operational processes. Our job is to empower employees to do their best work by building the foundational systems and data products that drive business decisions and processes while accelerating Chainalysis’ growth. As the Director, Business Systems & Platform Engineering, you’ll be at the forefront of positioning our technical teams to thrive in an AI-driven shift to headless, API and MCP-driven business systems architectures. You’ll own the integrated technical roadmap for building out the technology architecture as well as the underlying administration and engineering practices. The ideal candidate brings strong software and data engineering leadership
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Must be CST or EST The Engineering and Business Systems team works collaboratively across Chainalysis’ Business Automation, Data and Systems organization to ensure that core business systems and platforms enable business policies and operational processes. Our job is to empower employees to do their best work by building the foundational systems and data products that drive business decisions and processes while accelerating Chainalysis’ growth. As the Director, Business Systems & Platform Engineering, you’ll be at the forefront of positioning our technical teams to thrive in an AI-driven shift to headless, API and MCP-driven business systems architectures. You’ll own the integrated technical roadmap for building out the technology architecture as well as the underlying administration and engineering practices. The ideal candidate brings strong software and data engineering leadership depth and can ramp quickly on the GTM and Finance systems domain. The role will lead a small organization that encompasses platform engineering, data engineering, integration engineering and systems administration. In this role, you'll: Lead the systems and engineering org through a shift from a traditional IT and admin-centric org to one centered around platform and data engineering. Own the technical architecture, design, and delivery roadmap across business systems, enterprise data and int [... source excerpt omitted ...] and agentic processes. Partner with colleagues in Product, Success and Program Management to prioritize and deliver the BADaS roadmap by translating business, process and product requirements into technical scope, staffing, and sequencing decisions. Act as the internal technical counterpart to vendors and partners, including reviewing architecture proposals, approving technical designs, and owning technical builds. Own security, RBAC, and data-governance posture of BADaS platforms, especially from an audit and access-control risk perspective. Partner with engineering leaders across Chainalysis on best practices and to leverage platforms, components, solutions and code-bases that [... source excerpt omitted ...] ecurity with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation. You belong here. At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture. We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn

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