Cohere seeks a Head of Data Foundation Engineering with BigQuery and Terraform expertise to lead its remote-friendly global data platform.

This senior leadership role heads the Data Foundation pillar within Analytics and Data Insights. You will lead engineers, set the roadmap, and own governed data infrastructure. The work spans Airflow, Cloud Run, dbt, Looker, and agentic analytics.

Key Responsibilities:
Build, hire, and grow the data infrastructure engineering team
Set and sequence the Data Foundation roadmap
Own ingestion, orchestration, modeling, and analytics serving
Define governed access using IAM and VPC controls
Lead reliability, incidents, postmortems, and freshness SLAs

Requirements:
10+ years across data engineering or analytics platforms
Solid management track record leading infrastructure teams
Production experience with BigQuery, Airflow, and Terraform
Depth in dimensional modeling and semantic layers
Experience with governance, security, SLAs, and cross-functional delivery

Lead Cohere’s data foundation with BigQuery, Terraform, governance, reliability, and AI-focused analytics infrastructure expertise.
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📌 Head Of Data Foundation Engineering Ottawa
🏢 Cohere
📍 Ottawa