Sr. Manager, Data Engineering

Senior Manager leading a data engineering team responsible for building and operating enterprise data platforms at a cancer diagnostics company. The role combines people leadership with technical ownership, guiding modern data lake and lakehouse environments while partnering across business, scientific, and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop data engineering team through hiring, coaching, and career development
• Guide technical architecture decisions, design reviews, and implementation for data platforms
• Translate business and scientific requirements into scalable, secure data platform capabilities
• Establish and maintain data platform standards, governance practices, and operational processes
• Ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and quality standards across platform solutions

Requirements

• Team leadership and people management experience with hiring, performance management, and career development
• Strong technical foundation in data engineering architecture and implementation
• Proficiency with AWS services including S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Experience with data lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake
• Knowledge of data governance, security, compliance, and quality practices
• Cross-functional collaboration skills with analytics, data science, and software engineering teams