Data Engineer Manager

The Timberline Group; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Timberline Group is seeking a senior leader to drive Cloud Data Engineering, overseeing data reporting, governance, and analytics initiatives. You will guide staffing, delivery, and KPI-driven improvements, partnering with IT and business leaders to align projects with strategic goals.

Based in St. Louis, you will mentor engineers, ensure security-minded decisions, and champion on-time releases with robust testing and documentation across critical data assets.

Qualifications

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area with onsite ability.
• 6+ years of related experience.
• 2+ years of leading teams within a large enterprise IT organization.
• Experience in agile methodology and cloud data engineering environments.
• Proven leadership, communication, and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategic and tactical direction for the Cloud Data Engineering team's domain related to staffing, products, support, and delivery.
• Collaborate with Business and IT Leaders to drive priorities for domain across programs and projects.
• Manage teams performing analysis, design, development, testing, and support of data acquisition, integration, and serving applications.
• Build, develop, and execute project plans across multiple initiatives.
• Mentor and develop members of the Cloud Data Engineering Team.
• Ensure high-quality code deployments, testing, and documentation; support 24x7 operation.

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Communication

Data engineering

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / MIS / CIS

Tools

Azure

ETL pipelines

Job description

Our team is responsible for executing the technology portion of the Data Strategy IT pillar. This team will work closely with technology leaders, the Data & Analytics business team and industry partners to implement new solutions for data reporting and analytics, data governance and management, and data engineering. The Cloud Data Engineering team within Data Engineering will oversee the analysis, development, implementation, and performance of our new cloud-based data solutions. This work is reflective of a significant technology inflection point as it reflects moving our data solutions from a back-office function primarily supporting reporting to one in which our data assets are the core representation of the state of our business. This is your opportunity to be a part of the leadership team that will deliver on these strategic imperatives.

As a leader with people responsibilities, you will be responsible for creating a positive environment for team member development and growth. This includes supporting your team members’ career aspirations, and leading with diversity, equity, and inclusion intent. This position will require the ability to maintain timely and transparent communications and exercise frequent expectations management with team members. You will build future leaders, inspire the teams, and create an environment of strong employee engagement.

You will be responsible for ensuring priorities are understood and adhered to on the efforts the team is engaged. You will also be responsible for building relationships with the other IT managers supporting the Domain and/or requiring data, so as to ensure project deadlines are met, tightly coupled release management methodologies exist with the applications, requirements are documented, thorough functional and performance testing is completed, high quality code deployments are routine, applications are well documented, alerting and monitoring is implemented throughout the data pipeline process, data ingestion and ETL processes perform at the highest levels and Domains are supported 24x7 at the highest levels. Additionally, you will be collaborating with the Data Engineering DevOps team on the development of KPIs to elevate the availability and usability of the Data Services we provide.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategic and tactical direction for the Cloud Data Engineering team’s domain related to staffing, products, support, and delivery
• Collaborate with Business and IT Leaders to drive out priorities for domain across multiple programs and projects
• Manage teams performing analysis, design, development, testing, and support of data acquisition, integration, and serving applications to deliver high quality data assets and services used across Company
• Build, develop, and execute project plans across multiple initiatives
• Work on small to medium sized Product Optimization efforts for the EDL solutions
• Build and maintain relationships with counterparts in the other IT Solution teams that are leveraging solutions and data assets
• Mentor and develop members of the Cloud Data Engineering Team

Qualifications

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area with ability to come onsite as needed
• 6+ years of related experience
• 2+ years of success leading teams within a large enterprise IT organization
• Experience in people management activities, including career planning/support, training, interviewing, hiring, rewarding, disciplining, and performance and salary review.
• Excellent analytical skills as proven through past success with multiple projects delivery
• Experience in agile methodology
• Experience working in cloud data engineering or data warehouse and reporting environment
• Proven leadership of application development teams with experience in processing high transaction workloads of mission critical applications
• Knowledge and familiarity with data engineering concepts and trends
• Excellent knowledge of project management concepts, from planning and inception, through implementation and support
• Proven leadership, results orientation, and self-motivation traits
• Superb communication skills – both written and verbal designed to engage an audience across a broad range of technical expertise and/or business acumen
• Demonstrate analytical skills with the ability to use data for effective story telling
• High degree of collaboration skills; works well with others as it relates to generating ideas
• Demonstrated ability to quickly comprehend a broad array of initiatives to direct Project Scope, Requirements Gathering and Change Management to meet changing Business and IT objectives
• Strong skills and experience mentoring and developing IT professionals, to ensure the team’s success and enable the employees to achieve their career goals
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Azure technologies
• Experienced in designing, developing, deploying cloud-based solutions which leverage cloud native platforms.