Data Lead
PerceptaNew York, New York, United States
Posted November 27, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company, with a mission to transform critical institutions with applied AI.
Job Description
Percepta is hiring a Data Platform Lead / Data Architect to design, build, and operationalize data platforms that power AI transformation across large, complex enterprises. The ideal candidate will have strong technical foundations, deep experience building pipelines on cloud platforms, and a strong understanding of ETL/ELT, orchestration, and schema design.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundations
- Deep experience building pipelines on Databricks, Snowflake, or similar cloud platforms
- SQL and Python proficiency
- Familiarity with streaming tools (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT, orchestration, CI/CD for data, and schema design
- Experience working across hybrid cloud or modernization environments
- Experience building or owning enterprise data systems
- Designed platform-level data architectures
- Built foundational data models and semantic/intelligence layers
- Mentored or led data engineers (formal or informal leadership)
- Worked across distributed systems, operational DBs, and analytics warehouses
- Led build / buy / partner processes and vendor evaluation to make strategic decisions regarding data roadmap
- AI and ML intuition
- Understanding of what ML and LLM systems need (features, context windows, retrieval patterns, embeddings)
- Experience supporting ML pipelines or AI-adjacent data flows