Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Oversee a team of data engineers while maintaining a hands-on approach.

• Define the architectural vision for the Databricks lakehouse utilizing Spark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.

• Facilitate technical discussions and make design decisions.

• Mentor engineers through regular one-on-one meetings and career development initiatives.

• Take ownership of the technical roadmap and the advancement of the data platform.

• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and business stakeholders.

• Balance the introduction of new capabilities with the management of technical debt.

• Implement automated testing, data quality service level agreements (SLAs), CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.

• Foster a robust incident management culture that emphasizes blameless root cause analysis and proactive follow-up.

• Lead the responsible integration of AI-assisted development, testing, and operations.

• Scale effective AI practices to significantly improve delivery timelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• Established, in-depth technical expertise in data engineering.

• Strong architectural skills, including the design and defense of large-scale lakehouse and distributed data system architectures.

• Experience in a leadership role focused on people management.

• Practical experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Python, SQL, and AWS or Azure.

• Extensive experience in embedding automated pipeline testing, validation frameworks, CI/CD, and monitoring in a high-demand SaaS production setting.

• Proven operational excellence and a solid track record in incident management.

• Experience with on-call responsibilities, SLAs, root cause analysis, and measurable improvements in reliability.

• Demonstrated use of AI tools to enhance engineering practices.

• History of fostering career growth and enhancing the capabilities of an engineering team.

• Knowledge of French is required for permanent positions in Quebec.

• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, life and disability insurance, and fertility and family-forming support programs.

• Generous paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, quarterly self-care days, and designated no meeting days.

• Tuition and reading reimbursement programs.

• Thrive Global Wellness Program.

• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• One-on-One Wellness Coaching.

• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

• GoTo Gives and charitable matching program.

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).

• Gym reimbursement programs.

• Access to telemedicine services.

• GoTo performance bonus program.

• Monthly remote work stipend to help with home office expenses.

• French-language courses for permanent Quebec employees who lack proficiency in French.