• Roadmap and evolve the architecture of Vanta’s Snowflake‑based data warehouse, ensuring it scales to support real‑time analytics, zero‑trust principles, and FedRAMP‑capable compliance requirements • Hire, train, and develop a world‑class team of data engineers and analytics engineers, providing hands-on mentorship and creating a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Establish the two respective functions as a collaborative set of teams • Champion a security, compliance, and privacy‑first mindset across data ingestion, storage, transformation, access, and observability • Deliver a “zero‑trust” data warehouse by implementing role‑based access controls, column‑level encryption, detailed audit logging, and automated policy enforcement • Collaborate with AI, Strategic Finance, Revenue Operations, Data Science, Product Analytics, and Engineering to translate business objectives into a prioritized, measurable data platform roadmap • Own buy‑versus‑build decisions for the data stack; evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts with procurement, and integrate best‑in‑class solutions where they accelerate our mission. Hold and measure your platform decisions to a high data platform ROI solution • Be Vanta’s authoritative voice on dbt, change‑data‑capture (CDC), data orchestration patterns (Airflow/Dagster), and high‑performance database design • Oversee the Architecture to Design and implement complex data models, metadata layers, reports, and dashboards that power internal decision‑making and customer‑facing analytics • Develop front‑end applications and APIs that expose curated analytical data sets across the enterprise • Develop Data Platform Application training, access patterns and enablement that internal customers consider “awesome”, and that you measure and hold your team to the highest standards delivering • Contribute to data governance frameworks that guarantee data quality, availability, and discoverability