Manager, Data Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +23 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee a team by recruiting and onboarding new talent, establishing clear expectations, conducting formal performance evaluations, and coaching accountability.

• Guide the team in executing the enterprise data platform roadmap by converting architectural directives into sequenced execution plans, team backlogs, and quantifiable outcomes.

• Foster a robust engineering culture within the team by defining standards for maintainability, organization, and repeatability; nurturing engineers through regular one-on-ones, timely feedback, development plans, and formal review cycles; and taking responsibility for overall team performance and cohesion.

• Manage daily operations for the Data Engineering team by breaking down work into tasks, facilitating sprint-level planning, delegating effectively to enhance ownership, removing obstacles to delivery, and ensuring high-quality outcomes through engineering reviews and feedback.

• Spearhead the implementation of the Medallion architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) with a strong emphasis on layer responsibilities, ensuring repeatable and auditable pipeline behavior utilizing Boomi, Dbt, Azure Data Bricks, Boomi/Rivery, Delta tables, and SQL Server.

• Collaborate closely with the Data Architect to bring the architecture to life through tangible implementation patterns, reference pipelines, and guardrails—ensuring the team can consistently execute the intended strategies.

• Minimize friction by facilitating clear decisions and progress—using lightweight decision records, seeking appropriate input, and executing accountability while avoiding cumbersome processes.

• Establish DataOps practices that align with the modern software development lifecycle (SDLC): CI/CD for data assets, consistent branching/release patterns, code review standards, and operational readiness for pipelines through runbooks.

• Enhance pipeline observability and operational reliability by implementing monitoring for freshness/staleness, failure modes, and quality signals, ensuring the team responds effectively to incidents and support requests.

• Cultivate stakeholder partnerships and streamline the intake process: work with business partners to clarify requirements, minimize ad-hoc disruptions, and translate requests into deliverable, well-scoped work that aligns with the platform strategy.

• Develop future leaders and succession plans for critical roles through regular delegation of responsibilities, mentoring, and strategic delegation.

• Uphold and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders consistently.

• Participate in other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional projects as needed.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or relevant professional experience.

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in software/data engineering, including the development of production data pipelines and data platforms.

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership capacity (formal or informal), including team management, task breakdown, performance reviews, delivery ownership, and cross-functional coordination.

• Experience in directly managing a team, including hiring/interviewing and conducting formal performance evaluations.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark), Boomi/Rivery, and Delta Lake patterns for scalable lakehouse processing.

• Strong background in ETL/ELT design and implementation, covering orchestration/ingestion into transformation workflows across curated layers.

• Experience collaborating with application and database teams to define efficient, non-disruptive data access patterns for upstream SQL Server systems (read replicas, CDC, snapshot isolation, batching strategies).

• Proven expertise in implementing Medallion architecture with a clear separation of concerns across Bronze/Silver/Gold, including enforcing “no consumer reads from Bronze” style guardrails.

• Strong understanding of ingestion/source variability (APIs, CDC-enabled databases, file drops) and the ability to select suitable ingestion strategies based on source contracts.

• Demonstrated success in advancing team maturity from reactive delivery to repeatable engineering execution (standards, patterns, documentation, and predictable throughput).

• Interest and capability to mentor and/or train other team members as appropriate.

• Experience in cross-functional collaboration and fostering partnerships to drive results.

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with various audiences/levels, including leadership, through different mediums.

• Ability to present and convey information both formally and informally to all levels of the organization.

• Strong organizational skills with the capability to manage short-term and long-term demands simultaneously.

• Adaptable with the ability to pivot in response to changing business needs while maintaining a professional demeanor and leading by example.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload effectively to meet project deadlines.

• High level of confidence, integrity, and professional courtesy.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including experience with Teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software preferred.

• Naturally curious with a desire to learn, solve problems, and engage in detailed analysis.

• Experience in a fully remote team setting is preferred but not mandatory.

• Comprehensive understanding (or willingness to quickly learn) of business operations and processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position with a monthly stipend for office services and supplies.

• Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD, voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options.

• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and healthy lifestyle reimbursements.

• Open PTO, paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave, and paid FMLA leave.

• Friends and Family Friday to conclude our standard workweek at 2 PM local time; full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week.

• Access to pet insurance; opportunities for employees and dependents to engage in Skillable learning through our product and more!