Head of Data, Platform and Intelligence

hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Head of Data. Please see details below:

About the Role

As Head of Data you will define and lead Babel Street’s North Star Data Strategy and Architecture, building a cohesive, scalable, and AI-native data platform that transforms fragmented systems into a unified foundation for intelligence, analytics, and product innovation. 

You will own the full lifecycle of data across the organization, from ingestion and storage to semantics, retrieval, and productization. Your mandate is to unify fragmented systems into a cohesive, scalable, and AI-ready data platform that directly enables investigative, analytical, and operational workflows across Babel Street’s product suite. 

You will work closely with Product and Engineering leadership, to ensure that data is not just infrastructure, but a core competitive advantage. This includes powering Babel Street’s Knowledge Graph, enabling agentic and generative AI systems, and delivering data capabilities that are reliable, performant, and economically efficient at scale. 

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to translate complex data challenges into customer-impacting intelligence capabilities. 

This hybrid role will be based in their Reston, VA or Somerville, MA office. 

About the Company

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world’s most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage.  The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world.  Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.