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Salary: USD 146,100 - 206,010 / annual
Vuori is seeking a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to lead and grow the data engineering team while remaining hands-on with technical architecture and strategy. You will own the roadmap and delivery for data ingestion and pipeline infrastructure, spanning raw ingestion through staging and curated analytics-ready layers. You'll be accountable for team growth, priorities, technical direction, and cross-functional partnerships with data modeling, analytics, and product leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and grow a team of data engineers through hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management
- Set technical roadmap and strategy for data ingestion and pipeline architecture aligned with broader data platform goals
- Partner with data modeling, analytics, and product leadership to prioritize the data engineering roadmap based on business needs
- Work closely with data modeling to ensure pipeline output aligns with downstream semantic and dimensional models
- Own team processes and engineering rigor: sprint planning, code review standards, on-call/incident response, and testing practices
- Act as escalation point for complex technical and architectural decisions across pipeline design, ingestion patterns, and system reliability
- Represent data engineering in cross-functional planning and leadership discussions, translating technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Manage team capacity and workload, balancing new feature work against technical debt and reliability
- Stay hands-on with underlying technology (Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, API/file ingestion patterns) to make credible architecture calls and coach the team
Requirements:
- Experience managing and growing a team of data engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Strong hands-on background in data engineering: pipeline design, ingestion patterns, and cloud data warehousing (Azure Data Factory and Snowflake experience preferred)
- Experience setting technical roadmaps and prioritizing across competing initiatives and stakeholders
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering with analytics, product, and business leadership
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related field, including formal people-management role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent years of experience preferred
Preferred Experience:
- Experience scaling a data engineering team through significant growth
- Familiarity with dbt, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep), and broader CI/CD practices
- Experience managing vendor relationships or tooling budgets
- Exposure to real-time analytics or streaming technologies
