Sr. Manager, Data Engineering

Sr. Manager, Data Engineering

The Sr. Manager, Data Engineering provides thought leadership to deliver creative and efficient data solutions. This role leads the development of strategic plans for data products and/or initiatives. This role is also responsible for leading their resources to develop high level data delivery plans based on a set of objectives (scope, delivery and technical approaches, risk, assumptions, staffing plans, other cost, and ongoing operational plans and cost). The Senior Manager also oversees client, customer and vendor relations to ensure that service expectations are met or exceeded, and coaches and mentors employees. This role will be responsible for delivery of data solutions, data warehouse/Lakehouse, analytics and reporting solutions, and will manage a team of Data Engineers.

The Senior Manager will work independently and with teams to create technical, database design, data flow architecture & documentation, and will collaborate closely with technology and data partners. This role will be responsible for evaluating architecture processes, data models, and patterns to provide recommendations to improve standards. The Manager will participate in code reviews; ensure timely code merges and successful deployments; enforce and improve CI/CD methodologies; manage and help with story assignments by assessing the task, technology, and skills of team members; and participate & oversee knowledge sharing and Agile ceremonies.

Position Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Partner with corporate functional leaders and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities.
• Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices.
• Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense.
• Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities.

Delivery Planning and Execution

• Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps through collaboration with Product Management and DevOps, including the on-going resequencing of projects in the portfolio roadmap as priorities shift.
• Complete 90% of projects within 5-10% of approved funding and 1 month of baselined completion date.
• Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Provides insights on risks based on broad experience. Develops project risk profile, mitigation plan and contingency plan.

Technology/Operational/ Risk Control

• Lead integration and synergy between architecture/technology planning and development initiatives, providing direction and decisions in application development to support platforms.
• Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment.
• Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations.
• Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture.

Leadership

• Leads large size technical project teams or programs that span the enterprise.
• Manage the financials of the assigned area with attention to the details of budgets while exhibiting a strict cost discipline and financial performance.
• Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives.
• Select, motivate and retain high performing talent.
• Work with senior leaders to evolve culture and organizational behavior, elevating technology into a strategic partner.
• Act as the principal technology advisor to corporate organizations and a champion for identifying, leading, and driving information technology transformation.