Data Engineering Manager

IDR is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to join one of our top clients in Charlotte, NC. This hands-on leadership role offers the opportunity to modernize an enterprise data platform while mentoring a small team of data engineers. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and AWS , enjoys building scalable data solutions, and can balance technical delivery with team leadership. If this sounds like you, apply today!

Responsibilities for the Data Engineering Manager:

• Lead and mentor data engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical guidance, and best-practice sharing.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, and analytics-ready datasets using Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and AWS.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, high-quality solutions.
• Support migration from legacy SQL Server and SSIS environments to a modern Snowflake data platform.
• Design and build dimensional data marts to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics.
• Implement data quality testing, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Establish engineering standards for data modeling, documentation, security, performance, and secure data access.

Requirements for the Data Engineering Manager:

• 6+ years of data engineering experience, including cloud data platforms.
• 4+ years each of hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt (Cloud or Core), Python, and AWS .
• Experience building data warehouses, data marts, and production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with dimensional modeling.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, automated deployments, and data quality testing.
• Experience mentoring junior or mid-level data engineers while remaining hands-on with development.
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Prefect, or similar.
• Understanding of data governance, security, role-based access control, monitoring, and compliance.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a lean team.
• Ability to work onsite in Charlotte, NC.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SQL Server and SSIS experience, particularly within cloud migration projects.
• AWS or Snowflake certifications.
• Experience with modern business intelligence and analytics platforms.
• Prior experience supporting cloud data platform migrations.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments.

What’s in It for You?

• Opportunity to lead and mentor a data engineering team while staying technically engaged.
• Meaningful involvement in an enterprise data platform transformation.
• Hands-on work with modern cloud technologies.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Professional development and certification support.