Senior Manager Engineering- Data Management

Cisco; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead the Data Management backend team. This role involves overseeing large-scale data ingestion services and collaborating with engineering and product leaders to drive strategic vision. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering management and cloud-native applications, along with a passion for technology leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience, 3+ years in Engineering Management.
• Experience leading engineering teams for large scale data systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Management backend team for large-scale data ingestion.
• Define strategic vision and execution plans for the product area.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

DevOps Principles

Education

BS CS/EE

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

The Senior Manager of Engineering will lead the Data Management backend team responsible for the large-scale data ingestion cloud service and the strategic connectors running on this cloud service. This service provides a highly scalable and reliable way for ingesting data from large scale cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and SaaS (Salesforce, CrowdStrike etc.) services.

Meet the Team

Our team is a dynamic technology group with a mission to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you. This is a distributed but close-knit team in Splunk Data Platform org, focusing on building the next generation highly scalable and reliable data ingestion framework.

What you'll get to do

If you possess a passion for outstanding technology leadership and embrace the challenge of working on highly scalable systems that handle large volumes of data, this position is for you. You will partner with the engineering and product leaders to define the strategic vision and direction for this team and product area. You will translate the vision to execution plan and deliver incremental business and customer value. You will build, grow and motivate a team of highly skilled and passionate engineers to efficiently build and deliver high quality customer solutions in this area.

Must-have Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams developing and delivering large scale data ingest and/or processing systems.

• Experience building cloud native applications in an agile manner using DevOps principles like CI/CD, TDD and build/test/release automation.

• Experience working with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS services.

• Experience with being the liaison between your team, Senior Management, Product Management and other cross-functional teams to drive roadmap and strategy for your product area.

• BS CS/EE or equivalent with 12+ years of industry experience, of which 3+ years is in Engineering Management

Nice-to-have Qualifications

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

• Ability to champion an atmosphere of continuous improvement in the team by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.

• Experiences recruiting and retaining top talent and supporting their career development.

• Good understanding of emerging AI and ML technologies and concepts and how to apply those for building more intelligent customer facing solutions and products.

• Experience working within geographically distributed organizations.

• Broad understanding of various cloud development technologies and industry trends for enterprise-scale, distributed systems

• Ability to diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

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