Lead Cohere’s Data Foundation pillar with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, and Terraform across a remote-friendly global technology company. Shape trustworthy AI data infrastructure.
As head of Data Foundation, you will lead the team responsible for Cohere’s warehouse, pipelines, governance, and agentic analytics layer. You will set the roadmap, develop engineers, and deliver infrastructure that supports analytics surfaces and AI systems. The work spans ingestion, orchestration, modeling, serving, security, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities: Build, hire, and grow data and infrastructure engineering talent
Set the Data Foundation roadmap from company strategy
Own ingestion, orchestration, modeling, and analytics serving
Define governed access for people, accounts, and agents




Lead reliability, incidents, postmortems, and operational standards
Requirements: 10+ years across data engineering, infrastructure, or analytics platforms
Solid management record leading data platform teams
Production experience with BigQuery, Airflow, and Terraform
Depth in data modeling, testing, contracts, and semantic layers
Experience with governance, IAM, audit, and compliance workflows
Bring technical leadership, data platform depth, governance expertise, and AI curiosity to Cohere’s foundational infrastructure.

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📌 Head of Data Foundation Engineering (Quebec City)
🏢 Cohere
📍 Quebec City