Data Engineering Manager — Lead Databricks on AWS (Onsite)

IMPACT Technology Recruiting; South Bend (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown Automotive Firm in South Bend, Indiana, is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a small team and build a Databricks and AWS-based data platform acting as the company’s central source for reporting and analytics.

You will guide engineers, set priorities, and shape data ingestion, transformations, and reliable datasets for business use. The role requires onsite work five days a week and strong stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Eight years of progressive data engineering experience.
• Three years of supervisory or management experience.
• Strong Databricks or Snowflake experience, including Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
• Experience leading cloud data platform modernization.
• Clear communication and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop data engineers across junior through senior levels.
• Set priorities, provide technical guidance, and keep projects moving.
• Oversee data pipelines and lakehouse architecture using Databricks and AWS.
• Guide development of Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
• Establish standards for data quality, governance, security, monitoring, and reliability.
• Partner with analytics, IT, and business teams to deliver data.
• Support platform modernization, performance improvements, and cloud cost management.

Skills

Databricks

AWS

Data engineering

Team leadership

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Spark

Delta Lake

Job description

Unknown Automotive Firm in South Bend, Indiana, is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a small team and build a Databricks and AWS-based data platform acting as the company’s central source for reporting and analytics.

You will guide engineers, set priorities, and shape data ingestion, transformations, and reliable datasets for business use. The role requires onsite work five days a week and strong stakeholder collaboration.