AI-First Data Engineering Manager

Commerce.com; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce seeks an AI-first Data Engineering Manager to lead our Enterprise Data Engineering team. You will own the roadmap for Snowflake- and Airflow-based platforms powering analytics, AI, and data products, while building a team that treats AI agents as first-class teammates in data pipelines.

You will spend time mentoring engineers, shaping architecture, and embedding agentic tooling to enhance pipeline development, testing, and documentation at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering with team leadership.
• Production experience with Snowflake and Airflow at scale.
• Strong SQL and Python; able to review or write pipeline code.
• Experience with ELT tooling (dbt, Fivetran/Airbyte) and AI coding assistants.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers — hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance management
• Own the technical roadmap and architecture for Commerce’s Enterprise Data platform, built on Snowflake and Airflow
• Champion an AI-first way of working by embedding agentic tools into the daily workflow for pipeline development, testing, documentation, and code review
• Coach and upskill engineers on agentic data engineering — design agent-assisted or autonomous data quality checks, self-healing pipelines, and LLM-powered data products
• Partner with Analytics, Data Science, Product, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, well-governed data products
• Set and enforce standards for data quality, observability, lineage, and cost efficiency across the Snowflake/Airflow estate
• Drive modernization of data pipelines and evaluate new data and AI tooling to keep the platform on the cutting edge
• Establish design review, incident response, and documentation practices that scale the team’s impact without scaling headcount 1:1
• Report on team health, delivery, and platform reliability to engineering and business leadership

Skills

SQL

Python

Mentoring

Leadership

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

dbt

Fivetran/Airbyte

Claude Code / AI coding assistants

Job description

Commerce seeks an AI-first Data Engineering Manager to lead our Enterprise Data Engineering team. You will own the roadmap for Snowflake- and Airflow-based platforms powering analytics, AI, and data products, while building a team that treats AI agents as first-class teammates in data pipelines.

You will spend time mentoring engineers, shaping architecture, and embedding agentic tooling to enhance pipeline development, testing, and documentation at scale.