Data Engineering Manager, Affinity

• We are looking for an Engineering Manager who values career development, mentorship, and is a technical leader who can drive the technical direction of the team while aligning to our strategic vision
• You have 8+ years of experience working in data and software engineering leading complex, sometimes ambiguous engineering projects across team boundaries.
• You have 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager role or tech lead role, providing mentorship and coaching in a formal setting
• You have experience mentoring and helping the engineers around you grow
• ​​You have experience partnering with product and machine learning teams on large, strategic data projects and routine partner work
• You have hands-on experience in building scalable data platforms and reliable data pipelines using Spark and Databricks, and familiarity with Hadoop, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Kafka or similar technologies
• You have experience working with large, multi-terabyte datasets and are comfortable with high-scale data ingestion, transformation, and distributed processing tools such as Apache Spark (Scala or Python)
• Experience with AWS, DBX or related cloud technologies
• Experience with CI/CD processes, test frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• You're comfortable with the building blocks of modern back-end systems, such as horizontally scalable data infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and beyond and can clearly articulate the pros/cons of different approaches, while also providing a recommended solution based on the current context
• You have familiarity with databases and analytics technologies in the industry, including Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL and Relational Databases
• You take pride in delivering exceptionally high quality work in terms of data accuracy, performance, and reliability
• You’re eager to contribute your ideas and experiences to help Affinity continuously improve as a product and company

Desirable

• Reporting to the Director of Data & AI, you'll support creating the magic that underlies Affinity's industry-leading relationship intelligence by leading Affinity’s Data Platform team
• Our Data Platform team ingests data from various external data sources to build out a data platform that is used by our AI team
• This is a highly complex area with one record consisting of data points from many data sets, which makes entity merging and data correctness challenging
• Drive design and build data engineering systems, services, and data platforms that serve as a repository for our ML engineering and CRM teams
• Drive complex technical, architecture, design, and product discussions
• Manage, Organize, and lead the delivery of Data products
• Leading, coaching, and inspiring our engineers on the team
• Identify and fill gaps on the team, and create the processes necessary for the teams’ success
• Lead SCRUM processes, e.g., daily standups, sprint plannings, and retrospectives
• Scale the team by hiring additional talented engineers to fill existing gaps and provide the necessary velocity to meet product goals
• Help define our Data Enrichment roadmap. You'll collaborate with our fast-growing team of engineering, product, and business leaders to improve the quality of our data and enable our teams to quickly iterate on feature engineering and model experimentation