Sr. Manager- Data Engineering

Adtalem Global Education • Lisle, IL

112d • $96,404 - $169,021

About The Position

Adtalem is a data driven organization. The Data Engineering team builds data solutions that powers strategic and tactical business decisions and supports the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence operations. By implementing data platform, data pipelines and data governance policies this team provides the basis for decision-making in Adtalem. Adtalem is looking for a Senior Manager, Data Engineering who will lead overall technical design, development, modification, and implementation of data solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms. This person will own the development as well as the continual improvement of the data platform for an organization that has the goal to drive best in class student outcomes in the industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field
• 8+ years experience in data engineering solutions such as data platforms, data ingestion, data management, or publication/analytics
• 3+ years leadership experience building and managing high performing teams
• 2+ years experience in Google Cloud with services like BigQuery, Composer, GCS, DataStream, Dataflows
• Progressively responsible experience starting as Data Engineer and advancement in complexity, and level of responsibility
• Must be highly analytical with proven ability to develop and reverse complex engineering solutions
• Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills
• Experience in evaluating current processes for opportunities to optimize inter departmental communication, collaboration, and end-to-end process performance
• Proven experience defining a roadmap and managing incremental execution through successful launches
• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
• Must thrive in an Agile, fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Provide mentorship to data engineers
• Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals

Responsibilities

• Design and build trusted, reliable and timely datasets, metrics and data pipelines that are critical to the direction of the company
• Build and lead a high-performing data engineering team in a hands-on technical capacity
• Be responsible for shaping how we acquire, collect and leverage data
• Define and manage SLA's for all data sets and processes running in production
• Work closely with Product Managers, Analysts, Data Scientists to develop and own data-driven systems
• Develop data democratization layer for self-served reporting
• Assist development team in troubleshooting, coding, testing, implementation, and documenting solutions
• Support, grow, mentor and inspire new and existing team members
• Be a key leader of the Data and Analytics team, working to propel the business towards being more data-driven
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Comply with all policies and standards

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees