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

Robust 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.

📌 Head of Data Foundation Engineering (Winnipeg)
🏢 Cohere
📍 Winnipeg