Senior Data Engineering Manager/Coach

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JobgetherHealthcare data
Fully remote U.S. opportunity, Working hours aligned with Pacific Time; Monday through Friday.Full-TimeManager
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Required Skills
PythonSQLKafkaSnowflakeAirflowData engineeringSparkdbtDatabricks

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing large data engineering teams, ideally 20+ members.
  • Experience owning budgets, P&L responsibilities, or financial accountability for data platforms or technology products.
  • Demonstrated ability to connect data infrastructure investments with business outcomes, KPIs, and ROI.
  • Experience building and operating production-scale data platforms across the full data lifecycle, from ingestion through consumption.
  • Strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, cloud data technologies, data architecture, governance, and quality management.
  • Experience making architectural decisions involving data pipelines, platforms, warehouses, lakes, and streaming systems.
  • Hands-on knowledge of Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or comparable technologies.
  • Experience with Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and real-time or streaming architectures.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP data services and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data vault, and data mesh principles.
  • Proficiency with SQL, Python, Scala, or comparable data-focused programming technologies.
  • Strong financial and operational skills, including cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, vendor evaluation, and resource management.
  • Demonstrated success in performance management, career development, hiring, team building, and difficult conversations.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Ability to work Monday through Friday on Pacific Time and travel to Sacramento approximately 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • Define data platform strategy and make architecture decisions across enterprise data systems, pipelines, warehouses, and lake architectures.
  • Design and oversee scalable batch and real-time data solutions while balancing freshness, accuracy, reliability, performance, and infrastructure costs.
  • Establish engineering standards for data quality, governance, documentation, monitoring, security, and compliance.
  • Own platform budgets, cloud data costs, tooling investments, resource planning, and ROI analysis for data initiatives.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 10–20+ data engineers through coaching, career planning, performance management, hiring, and succession development.
  • Partner with Analytics, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Product Management, and Software Engineering teams to define requirements and prioritize data products.
  • Drive continuous improvement across ETL/ELT processes, platform tooling, data reliability, pipeline performance, and operational efficiency.
  • Support platform migrations and technology adoption while guiding teams through organizational and technical change.
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