Engineering Manager, Data
Permanent $120,000 - $180,000 / yearJob Overview
As Engineering Manager, you'll quickly see your team's work in use by over 7000+ agencies, across 150,000+ businesses that use our AgencyAnalytics. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of Platform, you'll lead a team of 6-8 engineers to develop the core functionality of our Data platform.
This role is an opportunity for you to really make a high impact and build as we enter our next phase of growth. We’re looking for someone that not only will be driving feature development, but ensuring best practices are top of mind too. At AgencyAnalytics, we're kind to each other and strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture focused on delivering value to our customers. So if this sounds like you, we want to meet you!
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and grow a team responsible for data ingestion, transformations, integration connectors, and data warehouse.
- Be a hands-on manager: split time between people management and technical work (architecture, code reviews, system design, and occasionally shipping code yourself).
- Own delivery and outcomes for pipeline/integration and data warehouse projects. Set priorities with Product, remove blockers, and protect engineering focus.
- Design and evolve reliable, observable, and secure data pipelines, data schemas, and integrations.
- Drive best practices for data quality, schema evolution, idempotency, retries, backfills, and monitoring/alerting.
- Collaborate with AI focused teams and Platform teams to design data contracts and interfaces that enable analytics and AI experiences (feature stores, embeddings, semantic indices).
- Make architectural decisions with an eye toward scale, operability, cost, and maintainability; partner closely with Staff engineers on long-term architectural work.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, helping them grow technically and in their careers
- Establish SLOs/SLIs for pipeline reliability, latency, and throughput; lead team incident response measures and postmortems.
Our Stack
- PHP 8.x with Laravel
- Typescript, React, and Redux
- GCP Cloud SQL (MySQL), BigQuery, and Redis
- GCP Cloud Tasks and PubSub
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Experience running a data pipelines / integrations team (ownership of ingestion, ETL/ELT, or connector platforms).
- At least 1 year in an Engineering Manager role. Prior technical leadership (Tech Lead, Staff Engineer) is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with cloud data warehousing and analytics platforms (BigQuery), strong operational experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), and caching systems (Redis).
- Experience with API-first connector platforms and SaaS integrations.
- Recent experience building data context for AI apps: feature stores, embeddings, vector DBs, semantic layers, or tooling that prepares data for LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation is a big plus.
- Strong track record of delivering data systems that are reliable, observable, and maintainable.
- Proven ability to manage tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and cost at scale.
- Comfortable writing and reviewing production SQL, performing database tuning, migrations, and schema design. You want to stay technical.