Manager, Data Engineering

What You'll Do

• At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
• Team Leadership and Development (25%)
• Lead, mentor and coach a team of six Data Engineering professionals, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Establish and continuously improve Data Engineering architecture, processes and standards
• Ensure team has measurable SMART goals (OKRs); hold yourself and team accountable for performance against these goals
• Project Management and Delivery (60%)
• Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data engineering projects including project management, resource management and communication
• Mitigate risks and clear blockers
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives
• Own team performance against established SLAs, including visibility into SLA adherence over time
• Establish and provide visibility for metrics that will identify bottlenecks or other improvement opportunities
• Roadmap, Strategy (15%)
• Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Engineering
• Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization

Who You Are

• Leadership Abilities: You possess strong leadership skills; you take satisfaction in supporting a team to achieve great things.     You are able to keep a team focused on the most important things.
• Project Management Expertise: You are skilled at breaking down large, sometimes ambiguous projects into milestones, keeping the team on track, and providing visibility into progress to stakeholders
• Data Engineering Expertise: You have hands-on experience designing, building and testing data pipelines. You are familiar with Data Engineering best practices, processes and standards. You have a working understanding of IoT data and are familiar with the challenges related to acquisition of time series data from multiple unstandardized sources.
• Data Architecture Experience: You are comfortable with data architecture and patterns for  both structured and unstructured data.
• Communication: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.   You excel at cross functional coordination and are able to build consensus.
• Value Creation: You understand business needs, users, technology, and data, and collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver data solutions that provide business value.
• Problem-Solving: You demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying issues and implementing effective solutions.

Experience You’ll Need

• 5+ years experience as a Data Engineer
• 3+ years experience as a people manager
• Proficiency at successfully managing large scale data engineering projects
• Experience with Agile project management
• Familiarity with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes
• Experience working with time series data
• Understanding of challenges and best practices working with IoT data 
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
• Understanding of data modeling principles
• Comfortable with object oriented programming languages such as Python
• Comfortable with SQL

Experience That's a Plus

• Solar Industry experience
• Experience with Databricks
• Experience with RDSExperience directly working with IoT Data Pipelines
• Experience creating a medallion structure data warehouse
• Knowledge of Data Governance and Security
• Experience with Salesforce

Work-life and Culture

• Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely
• If you are in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant office space in the historic and beautiful Smith Tower, in the heart of Pioneer Square
• We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year
• We provide outstanding benefits including family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year and thoughtful paid time off
• We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year, and four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
• We offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
• We love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
• We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
• We are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, come Discover our Story!

Grow With Us

• We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examples
• Internal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
• Here are the next roles in this career track:
• Senior Data Engineering Manager
• Director of Data Management OR
• Director of Software Engineering
• We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.