Data Lakehouse Manager

Job title: Data Lakehouse Manager
Location: New Haven, CT (Hybrid Schedule)
Duration: 6-month Contract to hire

Overview
The Data Lakehouse Manager is responsible for leading and supporting the enterprise data engineering practice, with ownership of design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of the organization's Snowflake-based Lakehouse platform on Azure. This role provides hands-on architectural leadership and people management to ensure reliable, scalable, and high-quality data pipelines while supporting and evolving the existing data ecosystem. The manager partners with business and IT stakeholders to deliver analytics, BI, and data solutions that enable informed decision-making and business outcomes. In addition to technical oversight, this role is accountable for resource planning, delivery execution, mentoring, and maintaining high team morale, while fostering a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented environment.
Core Responsibilities

• Provide operational direction, support, and guidance to assigned co-workers
• Allocate routine tasks or project work, in line with team objectives and individual capabilities. Monitor quality and performance against agreed criteria, to make learning recommendations or to escalate concerns
• Facilitate effective working relationships between team members
• Assist in the sourcing, hiring, and onboarding of new team members
• Foster a positive, supportive, and fun work environment while providing opportunities for team members to try new roles and take on new responsibilities
• Train or provide appropriate training and development for employees; provide direction, coach, provide feedback and support, counsel, and motivate employees
• Ensure adherence to company policies
• Create and present reports as requested
• Contribute to the organization's overall information/data management strategy, ensuring that it is an integrated part of the overall business & IT strategies
• Provide recommendations and solutions for improving data accessibility as driven by the business need for knowledge and decision-making capabilities
• Encourage and support innovative communities, teams, and individuals to share creative ideas and learn from failures

Skills Qualifications

• Strong ability to plan and allocate work based on priorities, delivery timelines, and team capabilities
• Experience with hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and employee development
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expert knowledge of the enterprise uses of data and end-to-end data flow within the enterprise.
• Strong understanding of cloud data platforms on Microsoft Azure
• Hands-on expertise with:
  • Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration
  • Talend for ETL/ELT and data integration
  • Qlik and Qlik Cloud for BI and analytics
  • SQL and Java for data transformation and custom processing
  • Snowflake for data warehousing and analytics
  • ELT coding and code handling best practices

Education
Required:

• BA or BS in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 15 years or more of related work experience