Sr Mgr Data Engineering
About The Position
We are looking for a highly experienced Sr. Manager to join our Data Service team at Mercury Insurance. In this role, you will partner closely with our Engineering organization to implement data technology, optimize technology stack. execute on data strategies, and deliver scalable, data-driven technology. You will act as a thought leader—bringing deep technical expertise, strong technical and soft skills, and the ability to lead and manage teams. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends deep technical expertise, architectural thinking, and operational excellence. In this role, you will be accountable for the Enterprise Data & Operations function, owning the reliability, quality, and consistency of our core data models and pipelines. You will partner closely across Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams to ensure our data foundation is scalable, governed, and aligned to real business needs. You won't just manage the work—you will roll up your sleeves to set the technical direction, redesign foundational models, and drive the standard for data engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 5-10 years People Management Experience: experience managing, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams of data and analytics engineers.
- Architectural Expertise: Proven experience redesigning foundational data pipelines and enterprise data models with the ability to make high-quality decisions regarding grain, entities, relationships, and slowly changing dimensions.
- Strong Modeling Standards: Mastery of modern modeling patterns (3NF, dimensional, and Star/Snowflake) and the ability to guide teams toward structures that support real-world business processes and analytics.
- Operational Excellence: A passion for data reliability, including the implementation of data quality frameworks, observability, and guardrails to reduce manual processes and technical debt.
- Technical Skills: Expert-level proficiency in SQL, Python, and production experience with Informatica, DBT (models, tests, packages), along with familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Tivoli, or Dagster). Data streaming(Kafka or similar) knowledge preferred.
- Modern Stack Experience: Hands-on experience with Lakehouse/Warehouse technologies (Redshift, Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery) and layered architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
- Engineering Best Practices: A commitment to automation-first principles, using Git, CI/CD, and DRY patterns within a cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Data Leadership: A "data product" mindset rather than a "ticket" mindset, with the ability to translate business problems into requirements, prioritize roadmaps, and manage stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in leveraging GenAI/LLMs(OpenAI/Claude/Gemini) to solve time-consuming critical problems.
- Experience in an Insurance, SaaS, or marketplace environment is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Manage and guide data teams with hands-on experience to execute on enterprise data strategy.
- Provide technical guidance for the team, raise the bar on the latest data technologies, and mentor data resources.
- Design, develop, and implement end-to-end EDW data processing encompassing multiple Data Marts.
- Build and manage scalable data pipelines to load EDW and data science environments.
- Automate data operations to manage 100s of pipelines.
- Automate data validation and testing of pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize data pipelines with high reliability and performance.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
- Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
- Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Engaging work environment
- Promotional opportunities
- Education assistance
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
