Data Engineering Manager – AI-Ready Platform Lead (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Remote-first culture

Job summary

OpenSesame is seeking a Data Engineering Manager I to guide a lean data engineering team, own the Data Governance & Accessibility program, and lead the architectural design of an AI-ready Snowflake-based data platform. You will oversee data ingestion from core systems and enable analysts with robust data solutions.

The role balances people management, strategic planning, and technical leadership to improve pipeline reliability and cross-functional data collaboration across the company.

Responsibilities

• Direct Supervision: Conduct effective 1:1s, set clear goals, deliver regular performance feedback, and manage career growth for direct reports.
• Engineering Culture: Foster a psychologically safe team environment built on trust, transparency, continuous improvement, and a growth mindset.
• Team Upskilling: Actively mentor engineers in data engineering best practices, design patterns, testing strategies, and operational discipline.
• Delivery & Execution: Act as a team steward, driving execution, managing team velocity, breaking down bottlenecks, and maintaining operational sustainability.
• Agile & Work Management: Facilitate planning, standups, and prioritization; partner with data analysts and business leaders to translate business needs into well-defined, incremental stories.
• Process Critique & Improvement: Regularly evaluate team processes to refine norms and eliminate friction.
• Stakeholder Enablement: Serve as the primary technical contact for analytics and business leaders to ensure data enablement across departments.
• Project Communication: Maintain radical transparency on team roadmaps, risks, delays, and progress.
• Business & Strategy Alignment: Translate complex technical concepts into business terms for cross-functional partners and leadership.
• AI-Ready Platform Architecture: Direct the design and scale of our Snowflake-based data platform, ingestion architecture, and AI interface layers.
• Enterprise Integrations: Oversee seamless data ingestion from core systems into a centralized, queryable source of truth.
• Data Governance & Observability: Establish company-wide standards for data ownership, access management, lineage visibility, testing/validation, and automated pipeline monitoring.

Tools

Snowflake

Fivetran

dbt

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Job description

OpenSesame is seeking a Data Engineering Manager I to guide a lean data engineering team, own the Data Governance & Accessibility program, and lead the architectural design of an AI-ready Snowflake-based data platform. You will oversee data ingestion from core systems and enable analysts with robust data solutions.

The role balances people management, strategic planning, and technical leadership to improve pipeline reliability and cross-functional data collaboration across the company.