Data Engineering Manager, Omnidian

• Leadership Abilities: You possess strong leadership skills; you take satisfaction in supporting a team to achieve great things. You are able to keep a team focused on the most important things
• Project Management Expertise: You are skilled at breaking down large, sometimes ambiguous projects into milestones, keeping the team on track, and providing visibility into progress to stakeholders
• Data Engineering Expertise: You have hands-on experience designing, building and testing data pipelines. You are familiar with Data Engineering best practices, processes and standards. You have a working understanding of IoT data and are familiar with the challenges related to acquisition of time series data from multiple unstandardized sources
• Data Architecture Experience: You are comfortable with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data
• Communication: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You excel at cross functional coordination and are able to build consensus
• Value Creation: You understand business needs, users, technology, and data, and collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver data solutions that provide business value
• Problem-Solving: You demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying issues and implementing effective solutions
• 5+ years experience as a Data Engineer
• 3+ years experience as a people manager
• Proficiency at successfully managing large scale data engineering projects
• Experience with Agile project management
• Familiarity with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes
• Experience working with time series data
• Understanding of challenges and best practices working with IoT data
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
• Understanding of data modeling principles
• Comfortable with object oriented programming languages such as Python
• Comfortable with SQL

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Manager to drive our Data Engineering efforts
• You will lead a team of Data Engineers, own, enhance and update Data Engineering processes and standards, understand company needs, and own and execute critical projects on our Data Engineering roadmap
• This role sits within our Engineering department and will report directly to our Director of Data Management and Information Security
• At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
• Team Leadership and Development (25%)
• Lead, mentor and coach a team of six Data Engineering professionals, fostering a collaborative environment
• Establish and continuously improve Data Engineering architecture, processes and standards
• Ensure team has measurable SMART goals (OKRs); hold yourself and team accountable for performance against these goals
• Project Management and Delivery (60%)
• Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data engineering projects including project management, resource management and communication
• Mitigate risks and clear blockers
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives
• Own team performance against established SLAs, including visibility into SLA adherence over time
• Establish and provide visibility for metrics that will identify bottlenecks or other improvement opportunities
• Roadmap, Strategy (15%)
• Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Engineering
• Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization