Engineering Manager, Data Cloud
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Fully remote work within CanadaFull-TimeManager
SalaryCompetitive compensation package aligned with senior engineering leadership roles
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSKafkaKubernetesSparkCI/CDTerraformDatabricks
Requirements
- Proven experience managing teams of 5–10 engineers in data platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale backend infrastructure environments.
- Strong technical background as a former software or data engineer, with the ability to understand cloud architectures, infrastructure-as-code, and data pipelines.
- Experience building and operating large-scale data systems using technologies such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Databricks, Spark, or similar tools.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and modern data stack components including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems.
- Demonstrated ability to develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and performance management leading to career progression and retention.
- Strong execution and planning skills, with the ability to identify delivery risks early and maintain predictable project timelines.
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for executives, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments with Product and Engineering leadership.
- Strong interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows and experience using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5–10 data and platform engineers working across streaming, lakehouse, and infrastructure domains.
- Serve as a servant leader by removing blockers, protecting the team from organizational noise, and enabling high-quality execution.
- Own quarterly planning and sprint execution, translating OKRs into clear milestones, ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices including design reviews, ADRs, automated testing, and data quality standards.
- Oversee incident response and on-call processes to ensure operational stability and minimize disruption to engineering delivery.
- Partner with Staff Engineers to support technical direction while ensuring clarity, alignment, and execution discipline across the team.
- Mentor engineers through structured coaching, feedback, and career development plans, including promotion readiness support.
- Hire and grow top engineering talent while fostering diversity, inclusion, and high-performance team culture.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement across engineering workflows and system design.
- Champion AI adoption in engineering practices, encouraging effective use of AI tools for development, debugging, documentation, and review processes.
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