Data Engineering Manager: Lead the Enterprise Data Platform

Discount Tire; South Bend (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tire Rack is seeking an experienced Data Engineering Manager in South Bend, IN to lead our Data Engineering team and shape the enterprise data platform. You will oversee scalable, secure pipelines on Databricks and AWS, drive governance, and partner with IT and business leaders to enable analytics and AI at scale.

You will mentor engineers, manage performance, and champion ownership, quality, and cost optimization while guiding the data roadmap and modernization efforts across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of progressive data engineering experience.
• 3+ years of leadership at the Supervisor, Assistant Manager, or comparable level.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers ranging from entry-level through Senior.
• Manage performance, career development, succession planning, hiring, and workforce planning.
• Build a culture focused on ownership, collaboration, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the architecture and delivery of data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
• Guide the development and evolution of our Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture.
• Ensure scalable and secure AWS infrastructure utilizing services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, VPC.
• Establish strong CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, including Terraform.
• Lead data governance, security, compliance, data quality, monitoring, and reliability initiatives.
• Establish SLAs and operational standards for critical data platforms and pipelines.
• Drive performance optimization and cloud cost-management strategies.
• Lead incident management and root-cause analysis efforts to improve platform reliability.
• Translate business needs into scalable, sustainable technical solutions.
• Partner across BI, Analytics, Data Science, Software Development, and IT teams.
• Help define the enterprise data roadmap and lead data-platform modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging Databricks and AWS technologies and identify adoption opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

Workflows

Unity Catalog

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Data governance

Cloud cost optimization

Communication

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE

Tools

Terraform

S3

IAM

Glue

Lambda

VPC

Job description

Tire Rack is seeking an experienced Data Engineering Manager in South Bend, IN to lead our Data Engineering team and shape the enterprise data platform. You will oversee scalable, secure pipelines on Databricks and AWS, drive governance, and partner with IT and business leaders to enable analytics and AI at scale.

You will mentor engineers, manage performance, and champion ownership, quality, and cost optimization while guiding the data roadmap and modernization efforts across the organization.