Senior Director leading enterprise data strategy for Versapay’s B2B payments platform. Unifying data architecture, governance, AI readiness, and commercial data products.
Responsibilities
Define and drive Versapay’s enterprise data strategy, aligning the data roadmap to product, AI, and commercial objectives
Lead the architectural convergence of transactional, operational, and analytical data layers into a unified, bi-directional operational backbone
Own a multi-year data maturity roadmap across architecture, semantics, governance, and accessibility
Establish canonical hierarchies, enterprise ontologies, and shared metric catalogues
Operationalize data governance through automated classification, RBAC enforcement, platform SLAs, and certified data objects
Formalize the Enterprise Data Catalogue and maintain an executive data health dashboard
Enforce data procurement review and own the Enterprise Data Asset Registry
Drive data infrastructure readiness for ML pipelines, LLM serving layers, and agentic serving tiers
Establish schema contracts and semantic modelling standards for safe agent deployment
Partner with Product and Engineering on reverse data flow, predictive model productization, and real-time data serving
Govern sensitive data and external data products for quality, lineage, privacy, and compliance
Evolve data operations into a design-first, product-oriented organization with governed self-service access
Operationalize external data products and partner with Commercial on data product strategy and recurring revenue
Lead and grow the Data Platform Team in partnership with Embedded Analytics, Risk, and Compliance
Bridge Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, and Legal/Compliance around a trusted data foundation
Represent the data function at executive level, partnering with the CTO and contributing to the AI and product roadmap
Requirements
10+ years of experience in data leadership, with at least 5+ years at the Director level owning enterprise data strategy, architecture, or governance
Demonstrated track record of modernizing and unifying complex, multi-source data environments at scale — ideally in a SaaS, fintech, payments context
Deep expertise in modern data stack: cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred), lakehouse architectures, ETL frameworks, and semantic/canonical modelling
Strong evidence of application of AI and ML infrastructure — including how data governance, observability, and semantic standards underpin safe, scalable AI deployment
Proven ability to build and lead high-performing technical teams and partner effectively across Product, Engineering, and Commercial functions
Experience governing data for commercial use: external data products, consent frameworks, lineage standards, and privacy compliance
Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complex data and architectural concepts for executive audiences and build alignment across functions
Experience with managing the cost of data warehouses and cost forecasting
Experience in hiring and managing talent across the entire data food chain – from BI and Analytics to Data Engineering to CI/CD of data platforms
Experience with agentic AI architecture, MCP, or LLM serving layers and the data requirements that underpin them (preferred)
Familiarity with AR/AP automation, payments, or working capital platforms and the data models they generate (preferred)
Track record of commercializing data as a product — packaging data assets, building external APIs, or creating data-sharing programs with partners (preferred)
Experience managing data maturity transformations with structured roadmaps, measurable milestones, and executive visibility (preferred)
Hands-on experience with AWS-native data infrastructure (Glue, SageMaker, Bedrock) alongside Snowflake and modern BI tooling (preferred)
Background in a PE-backed, high-growth SaaS environment (preferred)
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