Manager, Data Engineering

🕒 August 6

🌵 Arizona, California, +22 more states – Remote

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💵 $140k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Skillable

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-03

Education • SaaS • Enterprise

Skillable is a leader in performance-based learning, providing virtual IT labs and hands-on training environments. Their solutions range from employee skill development and job readiness to customer and partner enablement through performance testing and skill validation environments. Skillable aims to connect learning to work, helping businesses drive job readiness and product adoption through scalable, hands-on virtual labs. Their platform supports technical sales demos, customized software training, and certification, making them a valuable partner for training organizations and global system integrators. With a strong emphasis on security, Skillable provides ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified environments, integrating with AWS and Azure security services.

📋 Description

• Manage, hire, onboard, coach, and conduct formal performance reviews for a team of at least five employees • Lead delivery of the enterprise data platform roadmap by translating architecture direction into execution plans, backlogs, and measurable outcomes • Establish engineering standards for maintainability, organization, repeatability, and team performance • Own day-to-day Data Engineering execution, including task breakdown, sprint planning, delegation, delivery unblocking, engineering reviews, and feedback • Drive implementation of Medallion architecture across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers • Leverage Boomi, Dbt, Azure Databricks, Boomi/Rivery, Delta tables, and SQL Server • Partner with the Data Architect on implementation patterns, reference pipelines, and guardrails • Drive lightweight decision-making, accountability, and forward motion • Establish DataOps practices aligned with SDLC, including CI/CD, branching and release patterns, code reviews, and operational runbooks • Improve pipeline observability and reliability through monitoring of freshness/staleness, failure modes, and quality signals • Ensure predictable responses to incidents and support requests • Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and shape requests into well-scoped deliverables • Develop future leaders and succession plans through recurring responsibilities, mentoring, and delegation • Support company values through positive interactions with internal and external stakeholders • Participate in strategic business initiatives and special cross-functional projects as required • Work in a remote home-office setting with regular video and voice calls • Travel periodically, up to approximately 10% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or relevant professional experience • 10+ years of relevant professional experience in software/data engineering, including production data pipelines and data platforms • 2+ years of experience in a lead capacity, formal or informal • Experience directly managing a team, including hiring/interviewing and formal performance reviews • Deep hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark), Boomi/Rivery, and Delta Lake patterns • Strong ETL/ELT design and implementation experience • Experience with orchestration/ingestion into transformation workflows across curated layers • Experience partnering with application and database teams on SQL Server data access patterns, including read replicas, CDC, snapshot isolation, and batching strategies • Expertise implementing Medallion architecture across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers • Understanding of ingestion/source variability including APIs, CDC-enabled databases, and file drops • Track record of improving team maturity through standards, patterns, documentation, and predictable throughput • Ability to mentor and/or train team members • Experience working cross-functionally and promoting collaborative partnerships • Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at various levels • Ability to present material formally and informally to all organizational levels • Proven organizational skills while addressing short- and long-term demands • Adaptability to changing business needs, with a professional demeanor and ability to lead by example • Ability to prioritize workload and meet project deadlines • High level of confidence, integrity, and professional courtesy • Strong Microsoft suite experience, including Teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software preferred • Desire to learn, solve problems, and perform detailed analysis • Experience working in a fully remote team preferred but not required • Thorough understanding of business operations and processes, or willingness to learn expeditiously • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. • Primary residence must be in one of the eligible states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, or Wisconsin

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies • Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), and vision insurance • Health savings account with generous employer contributions • Healthcare spending accounts and dependent care spending accounts • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Group paid life insurance • Group paid short-term disability and long-term disability insurance • Voluntary life/AD&D insurance • 401(k) with company match • Tuition reimbursement • Healthy lifestyle reimbursements • Unlimited PTO • Paid holidays • Bereavement leave • Parental leave • Caregiver leave • Paid FMLA leave • Logging off at 2:00 pm local time every Friday when caught up on work and meeting deliverables • Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week • Up to $750 annually toward wellness-related lifestyle choices such as gym memberships, fitness classes, or healthy meal plans • $200 monthly stipend for office expenses • Access to pet insurance • Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through the product