Data Engineer Manager

Lead, design, and scale data solutions to support Journey Analytics initiatives, with a strong focus on code quality, reusability, and reliable data platforms. This role is responsible for setting the technical direction, overseeing the evolution of data architectures, and leading a team of data engineers to deliver high-quality, performant datasets for analytics and reporting use cases.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on data engineering expertise with people leadership experience, and has a proven track record of driving scalable solutions in cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering best practices in coding, architecture, and data engineering standards.
• Define and drive the technical strategy for Journey Analytics data platforms, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Oversee the maintenance, optimization, and automation of code repositories in GitHub, ensuring high-quality and consistent development practices.
• Guide the refactoring of legacy codebases to improve maintainability, scalability, and reusability across multiple use cases.
• Drive the design and implementation of modular, reusable data components to support multiple journeys and reduce duplication.
• Oversee the development and management of automated data pipelines in Databricks, ensuring reliability and scalability for downstream consumption.
• Establish and enforce standards for scalable data modeling to support current and future analytics use cases.
• Ensure data quality, governance, performance, and reliability across all data pipelines and datasets.
• Partner with analytics, product, and engineering stakeholders to align data solutions with business needs and priorities.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities, and drive mitigation strategies at a team and platform level.
• Promote continuous improvement of data processes, documentation, and engineering practices.