Manager, Data Platform Operations

Company Headquarters Saint Louis, MO 63146, USA Description At Safety National, we don’t just offer jobs – we build careers with purpose! Since 1942, we’ve been an industry leader, valuing integrity, teamwork, and stability while providing competitive rewards, top-tier benefits, career growth opportunities, and flexible work options that promote balance. With tuition reimbursement, wellness perks, and a strong community impact, we invest in your success—both personally and professionally. This opportunity is in the Information Technology department As the company’s largest department, I.T. is responsible for supporting both ongoing operations and our next innovative project. Information technology is prioritized, allowing us to partner with colleagues to securely enable and support new capabilities every day. Utilizing a diverse set of technologies, like Guidewire, Salesforce, Java, C#/.NET, Mule, and Azure, the available career opportunities continue to grow rapidly. Our department consists of agile teams where individual contributions are recognized, and career advancement is nurtured. Role Description As the Manager, Data Platform, you will lead a talented team responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and administering enterprise data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and business operations across the organization. You will help shape the strategic direction of our data platform ecosystem while ensuring it remains scalable, secure, reliable, and easy to use. In this role, you will partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Operations teams to deliver modern cloud-based platform capabilities that enable innovation and drive business value. You'll champion engineering best practices, automation, continuous improvement, and platform governance while mentoring your team and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence. Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred. Required Qualifications 5 or more years of experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, or related technical roles. 2 or more years of experience leading and managing technical teams or enterprise data platforms. Strong hands‑on experience building and administering cloud‑based data platforms within AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, or similar technologies. Experience with enterprise platform design, configuration, administration, and lifecycle management. Proven ability to improve platform scalability, performance, reliability, and usability. Experience leading platform automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern deployment practices. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future. This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/DataOps practices. Knowledge of data platform security, governance, and access controls. Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices. Experience leading platform modernization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives. Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures. Benefits Total Rewards That Put Employees First: In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation that includes base salary, holiday bonus, and incentive awards is only a small portion of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights of our exceptional benefits include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution. We proudly offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, generous paid time off and paid holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability. To support employees in their career journeys, we provide professional growth and development opportunities in addition to employee recognition and well‑being programs. Safety National is committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-based compensation. The target base salary range for this position is $101,500 to $131,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location. 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