CTO, Data Platforms

We're looking for a technology leader who knows data platforms deeply, has an opinion about the broader data platform landscape, and can turn that conviction into real engagements, real revenue, and stellar enablement for data architects who know how to deliver.

The CTO, Data Platforms owns Nimble Gravity's technology strategy and execution across our data platform ecosystem, with Databricks and Microsoft Fabric as our co-leads and broader ownership across adjacent platforms. This is a hybrid role: part technology leader, part vendor partner, part trusted advisor to delivery and growth. You'll spend your time setting platform direction, enabling architects and engineers, and showing up in client-facing pre-sales conversations where credibility wins or loses the deal. You report to the CTO of Nimble Gravity and are the single point of accountability for everything data platforms at Nimble Gravity.

The Opportunity

Our clients need help modernizing legacy warehouses, untangling messy integration estates, and trying to make data ready for production AI.

Nimble Gravity is built for this moment. We have deep Databricks delivery experience, an established Microsoft partnership, and Anthropic partner status that puts Claude-powered data products within reach for our clients. The CTO, Data Platforms turns that foundation into a clear, defensible, repeatable practice, setting the direction, raising the delivery floor, sharpening the pre-sales motion, and converting platform credibility into pipeline and signed engagements.

Data Platform Strategy and Technology Direction

You are the voice of Nimble Gravity on data platforms internally and externally. You set the point of view on where Databricks, Fabric, and adjacent platforms fit, where they don't, and how Nimble Gravity will deliver on each. You stay close enough to the technology to be credible with architects and engineers, and far enough above it to set direction for the firm.

Delivery Enablement

You define reference architectures, accelerators, and patterns that our data engineers and architects use on every engagement. You raise the technical bar by mentoring senior delivery talent, running internal enablement, and making sure every Databricks (and broader data platform) engagement leaves us with reusable assets, not just delivered code. You partner with our delivery leadership to keep quality high as we scale.

Pre-Sales and Growth Partnership

You show up where credibility wins deals. You partner with our growth team on qualified opportunities, lead technical discovery, shape proposals, and stand up in front of client architects and CTOs to make the case for Nimble Gravity. You bring conviction to platform selection conversations and help clients see the path from current state to a data foundation that's ready for AI. You influence pipeline as a leading indicator, partner-sourced opportunities, expansion at existing accounts, and new logos where data platform expertise is the wedge.

Vendor Partnerships

You are our primary technical face to Databricks and to the Microsoft data platform organization. You build and maintain the working relationships with Databricks field SAs, partner managers, and product leadership, and with their counterparts in the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem including FastTrack, partner managers, and product teams that turn into joint pursuits and co-sell motion. You coordinate cleanly with our broader Microsoft and Anthropic partner motions, since most modern data platform opportunities involve all three. You keep us sharp on Databricks and Fabric roadmaps, new capabilities, and partner program mechanics.

Responsibilities

Own the data platform technology strategy end to end. Define Nimble Gravity's point of view on Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and adjacent data platforms. Codify which platforms we lead with, where we partner, and where we walk away. Update the strategy as the market moves.

Lead on Databricks. Serve as one of the firm's senior technical authorities on Databricks Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakehouse Federation, MLflow, Mosaic AI, Genie, DLT, and the partner program. Maintain a credible operator's view on what's production-ready and what isn't.

Lead on Microsoft Fabric. Serve as one of the firm's senior technical authorities on Microsoft Fabric OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Factory, and the Fabric partner program. Stay current on Synapse, BigQuery, and the open table format ecosystem (Delta, Iceberg, Hudi), and make sure our architects can navigate multi-platform realities at our clients without ideology getting in the way.

Enable our existing delivery team. Define reference architectures, accelerators, code patterns, and quality bars for data platform engagements. Run internal enablement that sharpens the architects and engineers we already have, and makes them more effective on every engagement.

Drive pre-sales credibility. Lead technical discovery on qualified data platform opportunities. Shape proposals, scope engagements, and stand up in front of client CTOs, Chief Data Officers, and architecture leads. Be the technical reason a client picks Nimble Gravity.

Partner with the growth team. Work hand in glove with our sales leadership and account executives. Translate platform strategy into specific account plays. Identify expansion paths at existing MSA accounts. Influence pipeline and shorten sales cycles by being credible in the room early.

Own the Databricks and Microsoft Fabric partner relationships. Serve as the senior Nimble Gravity contact for Databricks and Microsoft Fabric field, partner, and product teams. Drive joint account planning, co-sell motion, deal registration, and partner program advancement with both. Coordinate with our Anthropic and broader Microsoft partner leads on opportunities that touch multiple platforms.

Capture and codify learnings. Turn every significant engagement into reusable assets — reference architectures, case studies, accelerators, ROI models, vision artifacts. Feed those back into the next pursuit so every cycle compounds.

Position the data platform offer portfolio. Shape and refine Nimble Gravity's data platform offerings modernization, migration, lakehouse build-outs, governance, AI-ready data foundations. Adapt offerings to specific client situations and to where our partner ecosystem creates the most leverage.

Cross-functional collaboration. Partner with the CTO, the office of the CTO, delivery, pre-sales, product, RevOps, and growth leadership. Coordinate cleanly with our Microsoft, Databricks, and Anthropic partner motions. Ensure smooth handoffs from sale to delivery and from delivery back into the next pursuit.

Market intelligence and positioning. Stay ahead of platform vendor product and program changes Databricks releases, Fabric maturation, open table formats, lakehouse-vs-warehouse positioning. Brief internal teams. Adjust our positioning fast when the market moves.

Represent Nimble Gravity in the data platform ecosystem. Show up at Databricks Data + AI Summit, Microsoft Ignite and Build, FabCon, partner briefings, joint customer engagements, and selected industry events. Be a credible, technical, business-literate face of Nimble Gravity that platform vendors want to bring into their accounts.

Qualifications and Experience

10+ years of relevant experience, with a clear arc from hands-on data engineering or data architecture into technology leadership.

Deep, current Databricks expertise. You can defend an architecture decision in front of a client architect and a Databricks SA in the same meeting. Databricks certifications and field experience are strong signals.

Deep, current Microsoft Fabric expertise. You can hold your own with a client's Microsoft data architecture team and a Microsoft FastTrack lead in the same conversation. Microsoft data certifications and Fabric field experience are strong signals.

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