Manager, Data Engineering

About the Company Cox Automotive – USA About the Role Manager, Data Engineering – responsible for data pipelines, transformation platforms, and analytics infrastructure powering floor plan lending operations. This role leads a high‑performing, cross‑functional data engineering team, guides the team through AI‑assisted, spec‑driven development, and ensures secure, scalable data systems across Azure, AWS, and Snowflake. What You’ll Do Build and lead a cross‑functional team of data engineers, mentoring growth into AI‑augmented practices. Oversee the full software development lifecycle for data pipelines, transformations, and analytics services. Ensure delivery of secure, well‑tested, scalable data systems aligned to NextGear’s Domain Constitution and Target State Architecture. Champion spec‑driven development workflows – detailed Change Specs authored collaboratively before code generation, validated against architectural guardrails. Maintain and contribute to component constitutions and context packs that guide AI‑assisted code generation. Partner with product managers, architects, and platform teams to deliver against NextGear’s roadmap and coordinate across the Release Train. Drive experimentation with AI coding workflows and surface effective patterns and anti‑patterns to the broader engineering organization. Who You Are Minimum bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field (or equivalent combinations such as a master’s degree with 4 years, a Ph.D. with 1 year, or 18 years of experience). 1+ year of experience in a management or lead role. Hands‑on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of the development workflow. Demonstrated experience with spec‑driven or design‑doc‑gated development workflows (e.g., OpenSpec, BMAD, GitHub SpecKit, or equivalent). Experience reviewing AI‑generated code and implementation plans for quality, security, and architectural compliance. Experience with modern software engineering practices: CI/CD, code review discipline, test strategy, observability, incremental modernization. Availability for rotational on‑call duties outside of standard business hours may be required. Preferred Skills Hands‑on experience in Azure cloud environments, including Azure Functions and Azure‑based data platform services. Experience with Microsoft Fabric for data pipelines and transformation, including Fabric‑based ETL/FTP integration patterns. Familiarity with AWS services commonly used for data workloads (AppFlow, S3, Lambda, Fargate, EC2). Direct data engineering experience: data modeling, SQL/SQL Server, dbt, data governance practices, modeling tools such as Erwin. Experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data warehousing. Experience with Power BI or comparable analytics platforms. Experience in automotive finance, lending, or risk management domains. Experience creating or governing component‑level documentation artifacts (constitutions, context packs, architecture overviews, operational runbooks). Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or comparable). Drug Testing To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre‑employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre‑employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we maintain a drug‑free workplace and prohibit possession, use, or being under the influence of illegal drugs during work hours, on company property, and/or in company vehicles. Benefits Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as you deem consistent with duties and company needs. Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for own or family members. Additional paid time off: bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave. Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). EEO Statement Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. EOE, including disability/vets. #J-18808-Ljbffr