Data Engineering Manager
About The Position
Redwood Materials is looking for a motivated and talented Manager of Data Engineering to lead a team of Data Engineers and Analysts. This role requires collaboration with other business units to identify needs, scope problems, and chart the long-term roadmap for the data platform and services. The Data team is responsible for managing data assets in a data lake architecture and overseeing the full data lifecycle from ingestion to processing to consumption. The ideal candidate is someone with experience managing technical teams, strong interpersonal skills, and technical skills in data engineering and creating/managing/supporting AWS infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience building data solutions in a modern cloud environment, with at least 2 years managing technical teams
- Strong technical foundation in Python and SQL sufficient to review code, evaluate design decisions, and guide the team through hard technical problems (Trino experience a plus)
- Familiarity with the modern data engineering stack — relational and non-relational data stores, ELT orchestration, transformation tooling, and data observability/catalog tooling
- Experience operating data platforms in AWS using infrastructure-as-code methodologies (CDK a plus); familiarity with containerized workloads in Kubernetes nice to have
- Demonstrated ability to manage production data workloads at scale (detecting and diagnosing issues, monitoring, incident response)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to translate between business stakeholders and technical teams, and to advocate for the team's roadmap with senior leadership
Nice To Haves
- Trino experience a plus
- familiarity with containerized workloads in Kubernetes nice to have
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of data engineers and analysts, including hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management
- Own the long-term roadmap and prioritization for the data platform, balancing infrastructure investment, new pipeline development, and analytics requests from across the business
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with teams across Redwood to discover needs, scope problems, and translate requirements into technical deliverables
- Oversee the design and operation of data pipelines spanning streaming datasets, APIs, and various data stores, ensuring they meet reliability and quality standards
- Operationalize the team — set on-call expectations, triage incoming work, and ensure production data workloads have appropriate monitoring and incident response
- Stay technically hands-on — review code, prototype solutions, and step into pipeline or infrastructure work alongside the team
- Foster a culture of technical excellence and execution, and champion the data team's work across the broader organization
Benefits
- Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
