Data Platform & Engineering Leader

Staritas; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

19 days PTO per year

10 holidays per year

Job summary

Staritas is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead its enterprise data engineering function, including data platform strategy, roadmap execution, modernization, production operations, data quality, governance, and team development.

This hands-on leader guides standards, partners across Technology, Product, Analytics, Security, Operations, and business teams to deliver trusted, secure, and business-ready data capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology experience in data engineering and related fields.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise data platforms and roadmaps.
• Experience leading data engineers and analytics engineers.
• Strong experience with cloud data platforms and data stores.
• Hands-on ELT/ETL development experience.
• Experience with Informatica or comparable platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing data engineering team.
• Own the data engineering roadmap, delivery planning, technical standards, and platform reliability.
• Partner with the CTO and technology leaders on data strategy, modernization, architecture, governance, and operating model.
• Deliver scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, marts, semantic layers, curated datasets, and analytical data products.
• Establish standards for data modeling, orchestration, testing, documentation, CI/CD, monitoring, and production support.
• Improve data quality, observability, lineage, alerting, incident response, and DataOps practices.
• Reduce technical debt, duplicated datasets, manual reporting, fragile integrations, and recurring production issues.
• Support AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, and self-service analytics with trusted, governed data foundations.
• Promote ownership, accountability, collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Analytics engineering

ELT/ETL pipelines

Leadership

Roadmap delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Informatica

Spark

PySpark

Airflow

dbt

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Data Factory

AWS Glue

Power BI

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Staritas is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead its enterprise data engineering function, including data platform strategy, roadmap execution, modernization, production operations, data quality, governance, and team development.

This hands-on leader guides standards, partners across Technology, Product, Analytics, Security, Operations, and business teams to deliver trusted, secure, and business-ready data capabilities.