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 while actively contributing to development efforts and setting best practices in coding, architecture, and data engineering standards.

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Journey Analytics data platforms, while remaining hands-on in the design and implementation of scalable solutions.

• Actively contribute to the maintenance, optimization, and automation of code repositories in GitHub, ensuring high-quality and consistent development practices.

• Participate directly in refactoring legacy codebases to improve maintainability, scalability, and reusability across multiple use cases.

• Design and build modular, reusable data components to support multiple journeys and reduce duplication.

• Develop and manage automated data pipelines in Databricks, ensuring reliability and scalability for downstream consumption.

• Design and implement scalable data models to support current and future analytics use cases.

• Ensure data quality, governance, performance, and reliability across all data pipelines and datasets through both oversight and direct contribution.

• Collaborate closely with analytics, product, and engineering stakeholders to align data solutions with business needs and priorities.

• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities, and take a hands-on role in driving mitigation strategies.

• Promote continuous improvement of data processes, documentation, and engineering practices through both leadership and execution.

Function: Marketing
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level