Manager, IT - Data Engineering

We are Builders FirstSource, America's largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You'll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

PURPOSE

Manager, IT- Data Engineering role is focused on the core areas of:

• Development activities involving projects, enhancements, defects.
• Day-to-day operations to ensure business continuity, which also involves managing nightly support for ETL runs.
• Team building and performance management involving a team of data engineers.
• Lead and manage the team through the transition to cloud based future data platform.

This role will be responsible for intimately overseeing data engineering activities related to development (SDLC) and release management. These responsibilities require deep understanding of data design and solutioning and architecture. This role will also drive day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of existing code base and ETL solutions and managing resources who provide nightly support for ETL runs. Finally, Manager IT - Data Engineering will be accountable for continuing performance management, delegation of tasks and accountability, mentorship, and growth of data engineering resources on the team.

One key function of this role is liaising with downstream consumers of our data system as well as other technical teams who are either upstream (ERP source systems), downstream (consumer applications, reporting team, business analytics team) or simply provide underlying platform services(infrastructure) to Data Engineering practice.

This role is expected to have deep understanding of the various technical aspects of data systems like Data Lake, Operational Datastore, Data Marts and Warehouses as well as hands on familiarity with ERP data topics (customer, sales and invoicing, supplier etc.).

Having hands-on experience with cloud-based systems and technologies like Azure Subscriptions, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps CICD in terms of development and day-to-day operations is critical to function in this role. Any exposure to Terraform is highly desirable. Azure and Databricks Certifications are highly desirable.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads small group of Data Engineers, follows defined operating model and framework to guide team's processes.
• Defines scope for project and program opportunities and creates project plans, including resource needs and timelines.
• Accountable for delivery and execution of defined deliverables.
• Partners with senior team members on day-to-day operations including staffing and tracking project status; course corrects for shifting priorities.
• Leverages expertise to solve a range of strategic business problems through dynamic and complex analysis.
• Ensures data quality through proactive monitoring and review of security policies, governance, and data sovereignty.
• Manages the development, improvement and scaling of appropriate data architecture and pipelines to store, analyze and process high volume data sets.
• Collaborates with data scientist(s) to resolve business problems and recommend optimal data sources, methodologies, and analytic tools.
• Oversees writing of functional clean code and performs unit testing.
• Manages team in design of reporting and visualization tools for communicating data insights to organization/clients.
• Influences, persuades, and negotiates with mid to senior level management for successful implementation of data initiatives, prioritization, and resources allocation.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has supervisory responsibilities, including but not limited to: supervises assigned team members (in-person and remote); talent selection and training; planning, assigning, and directing work; performance management, including conducting performance reviews; recognizing team members; addressing and resolve concerns timely, escalating for help when necessary.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Hands on expertise in Data systems (Data Lake, ODS, Data Marts, MDM) and attendant technology stack, involving RDBMS systems (SQL Server), ETL tools (SSIS), reporting tools (Power BI), File shares.
• Hands on experience with developing and managing cloud-based data platforms, on Azure leveraging key technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps CICD, Terraform.
• Hands on experience working with Azure DevOps and Jira boards and running agile standups and Kanban boards.
• Deep experience overseeing SDLC and release management processes and good documentation practices.
• People management skills like mentorship, guidance, performance management, upskilling, conflict resolution, delegation of tasks and overseeing the progress to completion. Being able to select talent and conduct interviews to find right fit for the role.
• Experience organizing effective ETL night support function for business continuity. Acting as escalation point for after business hours and weekend emergencies.
• Ability to cultivate and effectively manage relationships with external and internal teams, downstream and upstream from Data Engineering practice.
• Great written and oral communication skills. Be able to create technical and business collateral like power points and architecture diagrams.
• Project management skills for coming up with accurate and realistic timelines and level of effort for effective resource utilization for projects, enhancements, and defect resolutions.
• Familiarity with ERP systems and underlying data topics spanning Customer, Products, Sales and Invoicing, Orders, Employee, SalesRep etc.
• Experience with SAP Basis is highly desirable.
• Ability to act as a stand in Techlead and provide solutioning and architectural guidance.
• Relevant certifications on Azure and/or Databricks ecosystem.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 7+ years relevant work experience.
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

COMPETENCIES

• Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
• Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
• Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
• Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.
• Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.
• Provides Leadership: Makes decisions and takes responsibility; directs and leads others even in ambiguous circumstances, coordinating activities; provides encouragement and inspiration to help others succeed.
• Builds Effective Teams: Builds high performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a deep sense of accountability and shared purpose.
• Develops Talent: Focuses on developing, coaching, and mentoring talent to improve individual and organizational performance. Contributes to building talent that the industry, market, and BFS needs.
• Manages Stakeholders: Builds relationships and takes account of the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.
• Drives Success: Takes action, initiates activity and seizes opportunities for new business; pursues goals with persistence and achieves outstanding results.

BFS COMPETENCIES

• Business and Financial Acumen
  • Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
  • Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
  • Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
  • Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
  • Understands customer sales and engagement.
  • Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
  • Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
  • Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.
• Results Driven
  • Holds self and others accountable.
  • Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
  • Manages competing priorities effectively.
  • Demonstrates appropriate urgency.
  • Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.
  • Embraces and follows best practices.
  • Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.
• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
  • Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
  • Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
  • Balances short-and-long term priorities
  • Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
  • Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.
• Servant Leadership
  • Demonstrates humility by putting others first.
  • Builds trust-based relationships.
  • Leads by example with kindness and respect.
  • Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
  • Advocates for others
  • Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
  • Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.
• Emotional Intelligence
  • Demonstrates situational awareness - knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
  • Demonstrates self-awareness - understands strengths and weaknesses.
  • Demonstrates empathy - puts themselves in other's shoes.
  • Assumes positive intent.
• Develops and Leads Others
  • Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.
  • Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
  • Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
  • Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
  • Coaches and mentor others for their development.
  • Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.
• Growth Mindset
  • Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
  • Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.
  • Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
  • Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.
  • Sees possibilities over problems - actively seeks solutions.
• Innovation
  • Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
  • Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.
  • Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.
  • Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.
• Integrity
  • Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?
  • Communicates with honesty.
  • Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.
  • Demonstrates reliability and does what they say t

Required

Preferred

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