Data Engineering Manager

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Austin / $200000 - $230000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $230000

Location

LOCATION

Austin

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Data Engineering Manager

100% Remote - United States
Salary: Up to $220,000 base + Comprehensive Benefits
U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders Only
No Sponsorship Available Now or in the Future

A rapidly growing technology organization focused on delivering advanced data and analytics solutions is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building scalable, cloud-based data platforms and customer data integration solutions. This is a fully remote leadership opportunity where you'll drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and help shape the future of a modern data ecosystem.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead and develop a high-performing Data Engineering team, providing mentorship, coaching, and technical direction.
  • Oversee the design and delivery of scalable data platforms, ELT pipelines, and data integration frameworks.
  • Drive modernization initiatives across data architecture, tooling, automation, and engineering practices.
  • Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and quality processes to improve reliability and maintainability.
  • Lead efforts around data quality, validation, observability, profiling, and monitoring capabilities.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve engineering productivity and automation.
  • Build and execute data roadmaps that support both customer needs and long-term platform growth.

What We're Looking For

  • 12+ years of data engineering experience with increasing ownership and leadership responsibilities.
  • 5+ years of experience managing or leading data engineering teams, including mentoring and developing engineers.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, ELT pipelines, and modern data architectures.
  • Experience with orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow, Astronomer, Dagster, dbt, or similar technologies.
  • Proven background designing scalable data platforms and modernizing legacy environments.
  • Experience working with complex, imperfect data from multiple sources and building standardized data models.
  • Strong understanding of data quality, governance, validation, and monitoring practices.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
  • Healthcare, public sector, SaaS, or highly regulated industry experience is highly beneficial.

Why This Opportunity?

  • 100% remote within the U.S.
  • Opportunity to lead critical data initiatives with significant business impact.
  • High visibility role influencing technology strategy and platform direction.
  • Collaborative, growth-oriented culture with strong executive support.
  • Competitive compensation, bonus potential, and comprehensive benefits package.

Location: Fully Remote (U.S.)
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder required. No sponsorship available.
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

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