Manager, Software Engineering - Data Infrastructure

Job description

As Manager of Data Infrastructure, reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, you will lead 5-6 engineers operating critical data platforms that power our AI and analytics strategy. This newly created hands-on leadership role combines technical depth with people management, requiring you to mentor your team, drive agile delivery, and apply product thinking to infrastructure. You'll execute on our data strategy while ensuring operational excellence for platforms processing billions in monthly transaction data.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review here.

The Impact You'll Have

• Lead 5-6 engineers through hands-on technical mentoring, performance management, and career development while fostering operational excellence.
• Own data lake infrastructure operations (S3, Airflow, Kafka/MSK, Spark/Glue) maintaining 99.5% uptime and managing on-call rotation.
• Drive agile delivery with sprint planning, capacity planning, and requirements analysis to ship infrastructure improvements quarterly.
• Apply product thinking by gathering customer requirements from data teams, prioritizing platform features, and measuring adoption success.
• Execute technical roadmaps that deliver on data strategy, translating vision into concrete project plans with measurable outcomes.
• Partner with security/compliance on governance controls and work with vendors on technical integrations and platform optimization.
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