Data Platform & AI Engineering Manager

Circle; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking an experienced DP Engineering Manager in Hartford to lead a team of senior data platform engineers. You will own the roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services, while ensuring correctness, security, and scalable operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture with Staff Engineers, collaborate with data science and analytics teams, and maintain governance and access controls.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching.
• 6+ years in data, ML, and/or platform engineering.
• Defined and met data SLOs, built validation, and adapt architecture when data is wrong.
• Built or led LLM-based or agentic data systems with governance and access controls.
• Designed self-service platforms used by multiple teams and drove adoption.
• Owned high-impact platform projects end to end with production releases.
• Read code and designs, debug pipelines, prototype when helpful.
• Able to explain complex systems to analysts, scientists, engineers, and finance partners.
• Knowledge of AI model training/evaluation, labeling, versioning data and avoiding drift.

Responsibilities

• Lead vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real‑time data services.
• Coach and grow senior engineers and hire effectively.
• Oversee AI-agent management, guardrails, and review standards.
• Ensure data quality with cadence of checks, lineage, and ownership.
• Enable self-service for onboarding sources, pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring rules.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Product, Security, TechOps, and Finance.
• Stay close to code: design reviews, critical path reviews, debugging production issues.

Skills

Team management

Data platform

AI/data systems

Self-service platform thinking

Technical leadership

Hands-on

Clear communication

AI fundamentals

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Iceberg

Job description

Circle is seeking an experienced DP Engineering Manager in Hartford to lead a team of senior data platform engineers. You will own the roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services, while ensuring correctness, security, and scalable operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture with Staff Engineers, collaborate with data science and analytics teams, and maintain governance and access controls.