Data Engineering Manager

Agile Resources, Inc.; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical for you & family

Dental

Vision

LTD/STD

HSA/FSA

Life insurance

Maternity leave (12 weeks)

401(k) with 3% match

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Agile Resources, Inc. seeks a senior leader to own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of an enterprise data platform powering analytics and AI/ML use cases.

This role partners with business and technical leaders to align investments with measurable outcomes, guiding a high-performing data engineering team. You will drive cloud architecture decisions (Azure preferred), data governance, and cost optimization while setting standards for data modeling, pipelines, testing, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data architecture, incl. 5+ years leading senior engineers or teams.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling enterprise data platforms (lakes, warehouses, pipelines).
• Strong cloud data engineering experience with hands-on Azure knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data engineering platform strategy and multi-quarter roadmap.
• Lead design and scaling of data lakes, data warehouses, and large-scale data integration.
• Define engineering standards, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Data architecture

Cloud data engineering

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Azure

Azure SQL

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Location/Remote: Hybrid Remote in Cleveland, OH 44143 (i.e., 4 days onsite/week)

Compensation: up to $170k salary/year + Profit Sharing = up to $190k total compensation/year

Benefits: 100% company paid medical (for you + your family), dental, vision, LTD/STD, HSA/FSA, term life, supplemental health insurances (e.g., Aflac), 12-weeks paid maternity leave, 401(k) + 3% company match, Unlimited PTO

This senior leadership role owns the architecture, reliability, and evolution of an enterprise data platform that powers analytics and AI/ML use cases. Success is measured by building a scalable, cost-effective cloud data ecosystem, raising engineering standards and data quality across the organization, and growing a high-performing data engineering team. You will partner closely with technical and business leaders to align platform investments to measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own the enterprise data engineering platform strategy, including target architecture, multi-quarter roadmap, and prioritized delivery plans aligned to business goals.
• Lead the design and scaling of data lakes, data warehouses, batch/streaming pipelines, and large-scale data integration patterns to support enterprise reporting and advanced analytics.
• Establish engineering standards for data modeling, pipeline development, testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and operational readiness across the data platform.
• Drive cloud architecture decisions (preferably Azure) across storage, compute, security, and networking to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Implement and continuously improve data governance and data-quality frameworks, including data lineage, metadata management, validation rules, SLAs, and issue triage processes.
• Manage platform reliability by defining SLOs, monitoring and alerting, incident response practices, and post-incident reviews that lead to concrete preventive actions.
• Optimize platform costs by creating chargeback/showback visibility, right-sizing workloads, reducing waste, and setting guardrails for efficient resource usage.
• Lead, hire, and mentor senior data engineers and technical leads; set clear expectations, coach performance, and build succession plans for critical roles.
• Partner with Analytics, AI/ML, Product, and executive stakeholders to translate needs into platform capabilities, tradeoffs, and delivery milestones.
• Govern architecture reviews and technical decision-making to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and consistent with enterprise standards and long-term direction.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related disciplines, including 5+ years leading senior engineers or technical teams and mentoring high-performing engineering organizations.
• Proven experience architecting, building, and scaling enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, data warehouses, pipelines, streaming architectures, and large-scale data integration environments.
• Strong cloud data engineering experience (preferably Azure) with hands-on architectural knowledge of platforms/technologies such as Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, or comparable tools.
• Experience establishing enterprise data governance and data-quality frameworks, engineering standards, platform reliability practices, scalability approaches, and cost optimization across complex data environments.
• Demonstrated ability to set data engineering strategy, influence technical and business stakeholders, and partner effectively across Analytics, AI/ML, Product and executive leadership.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience leading data platform, system, or data-integration efforts tied to mergers and acquisitions, including harmonizing data models and consolidating pipelines and tooling.
• Background in IT Services, Managed Services, or similar enterprise technology environments, particularly supporting ERP, ServiceNow, or supply-chain data ecosystems.
• Relevant cloud or data-platform certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP, or equivalent advanced credentials).