Data Engineering Manager: Lead Databricks on AWS

Tire Rack; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tire Rack seeks a Data Engineer Manager to lead a team of data engineers and advance our lakehouse architecture using Databricks and AWS. You will design scalable data pipelines, govern data quality, and partner with BI, Analytics, and IT teams to translate business needs into reliable data solutions.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong Databricks and AWS experience, cloud cost optimization, and the ability to hire and develop talent while maintaining security and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, IT Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional data engineering experience with progressive responsibility.
• 3+ years in supervisory or assistant manager roles.
• Deep knowledge of Databricks including Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
• Strong AWS architecture experience (S3, IAM, networking, compute optimization).
• Experience leading cloud data platform modernization initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders.
• Professional data engineering or cloud certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers at the I-Senior levels.
• Drive performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Foster ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with HR and leadership on hiring and workforce planning.
• Oversee data pipelines architecture using Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog).
• Ensure scalable AWS infrastructure (S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, VPC).
• Guide medallion data architecture across Bronze, Silver, Gold layers.
• Implement CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Oversee data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Establish SLAs, monitoring, and reliability standards.
• Optimize platform performance and cloud cost-management.
• Ensure data quality frameworks are maintained.
• Lead incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Partner with BI, Analytics, Data Science, IT teams.
• Contribute to enterprise data roadmap and modernization.
• Evaluate new Databricks/AWS capabilities for adoption.

Skills

Databricks

AWS

Leadership

Data governance

CI/CD

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Spark

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Job description

Tire Rack seeks a Data Engineer Manager to lead a team of data engineers and advance our lakehouse architecture using Databricks and AWS. You will design scalable data pipelines, govern data quality, and partner with BI, Analytics, and IT teams to translate business needs into reliable data solutions.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong Databricks and AWS experience, cloud cost optimization, and the ability to hire and develop talent while maintaining security and governance standards.