Senior Technical Manager

OCLC • Dublin, OH

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

OCLC is seeking a Senior Technical Manager to lead our Analytics & Data Engineering team supporting WMS reporting and our internal data warehouse and ETL ecosystem. This is a transformative role focused on building a high-performing team, strengthening accountability and delivery predictability, and guiding our modernization from on-prem data/compute to a Snowflake-based platform. You will manage a team of analytics engineers, ETL engineers, and developers responsible for Power BI reporting, dbt-based transformations, and the data pipelines and practices that ensure trusted, well-governed analytics across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, BI/reporting, or data platform engineering.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading technical teams, including coaching, performance management, and team development.
• Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability and accountability for technical teams (planning beyond a single sprint, driving work to completion).
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing concepts (dimensional modeling, ELT/ETL patterns, data quality, orchestration).
• Experience supporting business intelligence/reporting programs with stakeholder-facing prioritization and communication.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Snowflake including governance and cost optimization.
• Strong experience with dbt (modeling conventions, testing, documentation, environments, CI/CD).
• Strong experience with Power BI (semantic modeling, datasets, performance considerations, governance).
• Experience modernizing analytics platforms and migrating from on-prem to cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with data security and privacy practices in analytics environments

Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Team Development: Lead, coach, and develop a large team setting clear expectations, create accountability, and ensure consistent follow-through on commitments. Establish a culture of ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement; provide timely feedback and address performance issues directly. Drive career development through growth plans, mentoring, skills development, and opportunities for technical leadership across reporting and data engineering work.
• Delivery Leadership & Execution Management: Own delivery outcomes for reporting, data warehouse, and ETL initiatives—ensuring work is planned, executed, and completed with high quality and predictable timelines. Implement strong agile practices: healthy backlog management, multi-sprint planning, quarterly roadmap alignment, dependency/risk tracking, and stakeholder-ready status communication. Balance roadmap delivery with operational support, defect reduction, and technical debt, using clear prioritization and capacity planning.
• Analytics Platform Strategy, Governance & Cost Management (Snowflake and Cloud Consumption): Lead the team’s contribution to OCLC’s migration from on-prem to Snowflake, including operating model changes, standards, and adoption of best practices. Establish and enforce governance practices for analytics data: access controls, data classification, documentation, lineage, and data quality expectations. Partner with architecture, security, and finance stakeholders to manage Snowflake and Azure PowerBI cost drivers (compute/storage), implement guardrails, and drive optimization (warehouse sizing, scheduling, monitoring, and usage patterns).
• Technical Oversight (hands-on optional; leadership required): Provide technical direction and review for dbt modeling patterns, testing, orchestration approaches, and deployment practices. Ensure Power BI reporting is scalable and supportable through shared datasets/semantic consistency, metric definitions, and reusable data products. Improve operational excellence through monitoring/alerting, incident response practices, and root-cause remediation for pipeline and reporting issues. Development using React and other modern tools for our front end applications.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions—performance, experience, and skills
• Exceptional benefits, including best-in-class health coverage
• Retirement plans with generous company contributions
• Commitment to your overall well-being
• Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
• Health and wellness events
• Work environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships

What This Job Offers

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