Manager, Data Engineering

Cox Communications • Carmel, IN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

NextGear Capital is hiring a Manager, Data Engineering to lead the team responsible for the data pipelines, transformation platforms, and analytics infrastructure powering floor plan lending operations. As Cox Automotive evolves toward AI-assisted, spec-driven development practices, you will play a key role in guiding your team through this transformation — championingspecification quality, enabling cross-team collaboration, and ensuring AI-generated code meets our engineering standards.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year experience in a related field; or 18 years’ experience in a related field
• 1+ year of experience in management or lead role
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a primary part of the development workflow
• Demonstrated experience with spec-driven or design-doc-gated development workflows (e.g., OpenSpec, BMAD, GitHub SpecKit, or equivalent RFC/ADR-driven practices applied at team scale)
• Experience reviewing AI-generated code and implementation plans for quality, security, and architectural compliance
• Experience with modern software engineering practice: CI/CD, code review discipline, test strategy, observability, incremental modernization

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience in Azure cloud environments, including Azure Functions and Azure-based data platform services
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric for data pipelines and transformation, including Fabric-based ETL/FTP integration patterns
• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used for data workloads (AppFlow, S3, Lambda, Fargate, EC2)
• Direct data engineering experience: data modeling, SQL/SQL Server, dbt, data governance practices, Erwin or comparable modeling tools
• Experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data warehousing
• Experience with Power BI or comparable analytics platforms
• Experience in automotive finance, lending, or risk management domains
• Experience creating or governing component-level documentation artifacts (constitutions, context packs, architecture overviews, operational runbooks) that enable cross-team portability
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or comparable)

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing, cross-functional data engineering team, mentoring engineers and establishing growth paths into AI-augmented engineering practices
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle for data pipelines, transformations, and analytics services running in Azure, AWS, and Snowflake
• Ensure delivery of secure, well-tested, scalable data systems aligned to NextGear's Domain Constitution and Target State Architecture
• Champion spec-driven development workflows — detailed Change Specs authored collaboratively before code generation, validation against architectural guardrails before merge
• Maintain and contribute to component constitutions and context packs that guide AI-assisted code generation in your team's repositories
• Partner with product managers, architects, and platform teams to deliver against NextGear's roadmap, and coordinate across the Release Train to keep team patterns aligned with shared SDD standards
• Drive experimentation with AI coding workflows and surface effective patterns and anti-patterns back to the broader engineering organization

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
• seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
• additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager