AI-Driven Data Platform Engineering Manager

Brobston Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and

Paid Time Away

Life Insurance and Disability

Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

Job summary

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a hands-on data platform team responsible for BigQuery/GCP, Looker Core, Metabase, and AWS workloads. You will set technical standards, drive architecture, and own delivery while coaching engineers and contributing code.

You will partner with product owners to translate vision into reliable platforms, governance frameworks, and scalable data solutions. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, on-call reliability, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading engineering teams with delivery accountability.
• 5+ years building software, platforms, or data systems.
• Hands-on Python proficiency and ongoing contribution.
• Strong cloud experience across GCP/AWS, with Git, CI/CD, and IaC.
• Experience owning access management programs at scale.
• Daily use of AI coding tools and a viewpoint on their impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery across BigQuery/GCP, GCP Looker, Metabase, and AWS workloads.
• Own platform reliability, incident response, and on-call for production systems.
• Drive capacity planning, forecast growth, and cost management.
• Support deprecation of legacy platforms (MicroStrategy, Tableau).
• Own access provisioning and governance across the data platform.
• Define access policies and provisioning workflows with security partners.
• Establish LookML governance and deployment practices for Looker Core.
• Partner on explore design, data modeling, and dashboard best practices.
• Own platform health and Looker development lifecycle.
• Lead the CA enablement strategy and token utilization planning.
• Collaborate with teams to drive CA maturity enterprise-wide.
• Set technical direction, monitor/maintain systems, and prioritize work.
• Coach engineers, write code, and review pull requests.
• Own hiring, capacity planning, and team health.

Skills

Team leadership

Software development

Python

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Access management

AI tooling

Tools

BigQuery

Looker Core

Metabase

Terraform

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Dataplex

Job description

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a hands-on data platform team responsible for BigQuery/GCP, Looker Core, Metabase, and AWS workloads. You will set technical standards, drive architecture, and own delivery while coaching engineers and contributing code.

You will partner with product owners to translate vision into reliable platforms, governance frameworks, and scalable data solutions. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, on-call reliability, and continuous improvement