Lead & Scale Data Engineering Teams
- Manage and develop a team of data engineers responsible for batch and streaming data systems.
- Drive technical execution across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers.
- Establish engineering standards, code quality practices, and architectural review processes.
- Mentor engineers in distributed systems design, performance optimization, and production reliability.
Architect Scalable Data Platforms
- Ensure scalable data modeling standards and efficient query performance across analytical workloads.
- Guide decisions about architecture. This includes orchestration and schema evolution. It also covers partitioning strategies and storage optimization.
- Partner with streaming engineers to align batch and real-time data patterns into cohesive platform designs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Data Product Management to align roadmap priorities, SLAs, and platform KPIs.
- Collaborate with software engineers to integrate streaming systems, APIs, and microservices into the broader data ecosystem.
- Clearly communicate architectural tradeoffs to stakeholders. Share delivery risks and operational constraints as well.
Technical Leadership
- Lead architectural reviews and drive long-term platform strategy.
- Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Modern Data Architecture
- Strong expertise in data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
- Deep understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, orchestration platforms, and distributed data processing systems.
- Solid understanding of Kafka-based architectures and event-driven data patterns.
Team Development & Coaching
- Proven experience hiring, onboarding, and retaining high-performing engineers across varying seniority levels.
- Commitment to building an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
Execution & Delivery Leadership
- Strong sprint planning, capacity modeling, and roadmap sequencing skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities across reliability, feature delivery, and technical debt reduction.
- Experience establishing engineering KPIs such as reliability, latency, throughput, and deployment frequency.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering large-scale production data platforms.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems engineering and cloud-native architecture.
- You should have great communication skills. You also need to collaborate with different teams.
- You should be self-motivated. Focus on quality. A commitment to engineering excellence and operational discipline is essential.
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The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.
This position is bonus eligible.