Sr. Manager, Data Platform Engineering

SimpliSafe • Boston, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

SimpliSafe is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to lead the team responsible for building, operating, and evolving their modern Enterprise Data Platform, which is being migrated to a lakehouse architecture. This role involves managing the current platform, partnering with vendors for the new implementation, and planning the deprecation of legacy infrastructure. The ideal candidate will stay technically involved to review designs and make critical decisions without being the sole architect. The position reports to the Senior Director, Data Platform and leads a team of core platform and data integration engineers, plus a Data Architect. Collaboration with the Senior Manager, Data Engineering, Senior Program Manager, and other departments like Security, Privacy, and Infrastructure is key.

Requirements

• 8+ years in data platform, data engineering, or infrastructure engineering
• 5+ years managing engineering teams
• Track record of hiring senior and staff engineers and growing technical leadership
• Built and operated a modern cloud lakehouse in production (Databricks or comparable), including the environment, CI/CD, and access model
• Ran a platform migration while the legacy environment stayed in production: parallel operation, reconciliation, cutover, and decommissioning
• Led external delivery partners or vendor engineering teams
• Defined technical acceptance criteria, held partners to them, and brought the capability in-house
• Built ingestion at scale (batch, replication, CDC, and API) on a reusable framework, with production pipeline reliability as your responsibility
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Databricks depth: Unity Catalog, Workflows/Jobs, Delta/DLT
• AWS data stacks (S3, Iceberg/Delta) and streaming (Kafka)
• Owned platform cost and performance: accountable for a consumption or budget line, with specific optimizations
• Retired or replaced in-house platform component in favor of a supported alternative
• Experience in consumer products, hardware, technology, or subscription businesses

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: Hire, coach, develop, and performance-manage platform, DevOps, and integration engineers plus the Data Architect, and manage capacity across build, migration, and legacy support.
• Own the platform roadmap: Translate target architecture into sequenced capabilities, engineering standards, and team plans, balancing new capability against reliability, cost, and technical debt.
• Own the core platform: environments, deployment patterns, orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation, delivered as self-service patterns and templates rather than a ticket queue.
• Own ingestion and integration: Build reusable frameworks across batch, replication, CDC, and API, plus standards for source onboarding, schema change, data contracts, metadata, and lineage.
• Own reliability and observability: incident response, recovery, on-call practices, monitoring, and alerting, extending coverage across data products with the Senior Manager, Data Engineering.
• Own platform cost and performance: Drive compute and workload optimization and cost visibility, in partnership with Finance and Infrastructure.
• Set architecture direction with the Data Architect on major decisions, standards, and exceptions without becoming an approval gate, and build security, privacy, access, and governance requirements into how the platform runs.
• Own technical acceptance of implementation-partner work: Define acceptance criteria, review mechanisms, and knowledge transfer so engineers can operate the platform before handoff.
• Lead platform and ingestion migration off the legacy estate, supporting Data Engineering’s workload and data-product cutover.

Benefits

• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Comprehensive total rewards package that supports wellness and provides security
• Participation in annual bonus program
• Equity
• Full range of medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits

What This Job Offers

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