Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Job Summary
Job Description
The Senior Manager, Data Engineering will lead the company-wide data platform operations and the Data Engineering team. This role requires deep experience in large-scale distributed systems, Big Data, and data platforms. Responsibilities include managing team members and projects, ensuring timely delivery, interpreting business issues, recommending solutions based on best practices, solving complex problems, and managing a team of data engineers. They will also facilitate upward and across-project team communication, ensure project documentation, implement product features, refine specifications with data scientists and architects, resolve operational issues, and manage team performance.
Must have:
- Lead Data Engineering team
- Manage projects and ensure delivery
- Expertise in Big Data
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Bachelor's degree
Good to have:
- Informal or formal people leadership
- Mentoring experience
Perks:
- Named a best place to work
5 skills required
Job Details
The Senior Manager, Data Engineering, will oversee and lead the Data Engineering team in operating the company wide data platform. They will have a deep experience with large-scale distributed systems from design to deploy. They are an expert in Big Data and data platforms and will possess excellent organizational, leadership, decision making, and communication skills. They must have a passion to lead and deliver.
Manage the team members and projects of the data engineering team and ensure delivery in a timely manner while meeting the requirements set forth by the business. Uses expertise in multiple areas to interpret internal and external business issues and recommend solutions based on best practices. Solves complex problems and takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. Manage a team of data engineers. Facilitates communication upward and across project team including project status and technical information. Ensures projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented. Responsible for hiring, firing, performance appraisals, and pay reviews of data engineers. Implement product features and refine specifications with our Data scientists, Data Analysts and Data Architects. Resolve operational issues by collaborating with upstream support groups and other engineering teams. Ensures projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented.
Leadership
- Leads a unit toward common goals and objectives.
- Works with subordinates to develop projects, goals and objectives, mentors through task execution.
- Success evaluated based on the overall review of unit performance.
- Provides direct supervision to individual contributors.
- 50-60% management, 40-50% work product.
Decision Making
- Decisions impact attainment of short-term goals.
- Sees multiple outcomes and determines appropriate course of action.
- Failure to achieve results will cause critical delays.
- Must foresee issues and creatively address in a pro-active manner.
Complexity
- Determines subordinate goals and objectives.
- Establishes and maintains unit policies and best practices.
- Works on issues of diverse scope which requires an understanding of the business.
- Executes on strategic goals and objectives ensuring alignment with the department’s strategic plan.
- Administer unit budget.
Influence
- Contributes to strategic planning for the unit.
- Inspires others to perform at the highest level.
- Collaborates with internal stakeholders to deliver consistent, aligned business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitates communication upward and across project team including project status and technical information.
- Ensures projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented.
- Implement product features and refine specifications with our Data scientists, Data Analysts and Data Architects.
- Resolve operational issues by collaborating with upstream support groups and other engineering teams.
- Anticipates talent needs, allowing team members to provide input, and leads effort to find the right resources.
- Manages performance of people managers and individual contributors. (KPI)
- Performance and efficiency of the code delivery by the entire team, including stories completed , story points delivered and assigned goals during goal setting.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Experience
- Requires 7-9 years of experience.
- Prefer informal or formal people leadership and/or mentoring experience.
Physical Demands
- General office environment. Moderate levels of stress may occur at times. No special physical demands required.
- Role requires less than 10% travel.
Disclaimer
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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