Manager, Applications and Data Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 8–10 software engineers, database administrators, and data engineers.

• Define expectations, create accountability, offer constructive feedback, and assist with hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation, and professional development.

• Provide hands-on technical expertise, review designs and implementations, troubleshoot intricate issues, and act as a technical escalation point.

• Supervise cloud-native applications, APIs, SaaS integrations, orchestration workflows, CI/CD, and related services.

• Oversee operations for databases and data platforms, ensuring performance, availability, backup and recovery, monitoring, incident response, change management, production support, capacity management, and operational resilience.

• Collaborate with business analysts, architecture, quality assurance, governance, security, and delivery teams to convert business requirements into effective solutions.

• Analyze application, database, integration, pipeline, and data issues; lead root-cause investigations and corrective measures.

• Discover and implement ways to simplify, automate, consolidate, and optimize applications, databases, data platforms, integrations, and workflows.

• Promote the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools and modern cloud-native methodologies.

• Execute other tasks as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, database administration, data engineering, data operations, or related technology domains, including leadership or supervisory roles.

• Proven track record in managing and developing technical team members, establishing expectations, delivering feedback, enhancing accountability, and achieving results through people.

• Strong technical proficiency in software development, SQL, databases, data engineering, data platforms, APIs, SaaS integration, orchestration, cloud-native architecture, pipelines, CI/CD, Artificial Intelligence, and Agile delivery methodologies.

• Capability to review, comprehend, troubleshoot, and if necessary, contribute to application code, database objects, data pipelines, integrations, and deployment automation.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native application and data patterns, including secure configuration, monitoring, identity management, networking, and operational support.

• Experience in database administration and enterprise data platforms, covering performance optimization, high availability, backup and recovery, monitoring, incident response, and production support.

• Comprehensive understanding of data architecture, modeling, quality, lineage, security, integration, lifecycle management, and analytics enablement.

• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technology and data solutions, clearly communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills in complex settings.

• Willingness to work evenings and weekends as necessary.

• A home office setup with a quiet workspace, capability to appear on camera, and the ability to connect via a wired high-speed internet connection.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical (including prescription), Dental, Vision (UMA subsidized).

• FSA/HSA (Depending on the Medical Plan selected).

• Basic Life Insurance (UMA paid).

• Additional Voluntary Life Insurance (Team Member paid).

• Employee Assistance Program – EAP (UMA paid).

• Long Term Disability (UMA paid).

• Short Term Disability (Team Member paid).

• Supplemental Insurance such as Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital (Team Member Paid).

• Paid Time Off – 15 days accrued in year 1, plus 9 holidays and 1 day for Volunteering Time Off.

• 401k (eligible after completing 90 days of employment and must be at least 18 years of age).

• Pet Insurance.

• Identity Theft Protection.

• Occasional onsite travel.

• Support for home office setup and the ability to request accommodations.