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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Business Systems & Platform Engineering - **Company:** Chainalysis Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Business Systems, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Github, Graph Theory, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Netsuite, Node.Js, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control, Salesforce.Com, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Databases, TypeScript, State Machines, Zapier, Git, Marketo, Enterprise Integration, Graphql, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Workday, Databricks - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/director-engineering-business-systems-chainalysis-company-9912761 ## About the Role * 8+ years of experience in software, platform, or data engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and engineering managers. * Strong organizational leadership: hiring, career pathing, and building succession depth across a multi-manager org that currently has real single-point-of-failure risk. * Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, transformation-in-progress environment. * Demonstrated ownership of team-based technical architecture and engineering practices: repo management, CI/CD, code review standards, test/regression discipline, etc. * Experience managing a technically mixed org (engineers, data engineers, and platform/systems administrators) and successfully raising the technical bar of the admin-facing work over time. * Data-first orientation focused on data architecture and flow * Strong working fluency in modern, event-based, service-oriented architectures using server-side JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js within a primarily serverless AWS environment. * Deep experience with REST / GraphQL API architectures, relevant authorization strategies including OAUTH and JWT. * Familiarity with data engineering fundamentals and infrastructure including SQL, Python, dbt / data modeling, pipeline orchestration, batch vs near-real time ETLs and reverse ETLs, medallion architectures. * Experience with IaC platforms (e.g. Terraform) for DevOps and cloud infrastructure. Nice to have experience: * Modern AI-centric engineering workflows and practices. * Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building autonomous AI agents. * Hands-on experience with graph theory and databases, especially as a context layer for Ai co-pilots, workflows and agents. * Track record of managing vendors and implementation partners on a complex platform build, including technical design review and sign-off authority. * Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms used in GTM and/or Finance (e.g. Marketo, Salesforce, NetSuite, Nue, Salesforce Revenue Cloud Advanced, Conga and DealHub) at an architectural and API level. Technologies we use: * Python, Node.js * AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, CloudWatch, VPCs, IAM) * Workato, Fivetran * Databricks, Airbyte * Terraform * Git, Github * Salesforce, Netsuite, Workday, Marketo, Clari, Adaptive * LiteLLM, Claude Code ## Description The Engineering and Business Systems team works collaboratively across Chainalysis' Business Automation, Data and Systems organization to ensure that core business systems and platforms enable business policies and operational processes. Our job is to empower employees to do their best work by building the foundational systems and data products that drive business decisions and processes while accelerating Chainalysis' growth. As the Director, Business Systems & Platform Engineering, you'll be at the forefront of positioning our technical teams to thrive in an AI-driven shift to headless, API and MCP-driven business systems architectures. You'll own the integrated technical roadmap for building out the technology architecture as well as the underlying administration and engineering practices. The ideal candidate brings strong software and data engineering leadership depth and can ramp quickly on the GTM and Finance systems domain. The role will lead a small organization that encompasses platform engineering, data engineering, integration engineering and systems administration. In this role, you'll: * Lead the systems and engineering org through a shift from a traditional IT and admin-centric org to one centered around platform and data engineering. * Own the technical architecture, design, and delivery roadmap across business systems, enterprise data and integrations. * Directly manage and grow systems and engineering-track managers and direct reports including technical mentorship and career pathing. * Collaborate with team members to establish and codify standards, style guides, workflows, ceremonies and other engineering and systems practices into a single, coherent operating model that leverages AI and agentic processes. * Partner with colleagues in Product, Success and Program Management to prioritize and deliver the BADaS roadmap by translating business, process and product requirements into technical scope, staffing, and sequencing decisions. * Act as the internal technical counterpart to vendors and partners, including reviewing architecture proposals, approving technical designs, and owning technical builds. * Own security, RBAC, and data-governance posture of BADaS platforms, especially from an audit and access-control risk perspective. * Partner with engineering leaders across Chainalysis on best practices and to leverage platforms, components, solutions and code-bases that already exist. ## Related Videos - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [HR ROBO SAPIENS: Decoding AI Agents and Workflow Automation for Modern Recruitment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1470-hr-robo-sapiens-decoding-ai-agents-and-workflow-automation-for-modern-recruitment) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Create a Programmatic SEO Project Using Next.js and Static Site Generation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/449-create-a-programmatic-seo-project-using-next-js-and-static-site-generation) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)