Data Platform Engineering Manager

Circle

Montgomery (AL)

On-site

USD 195,000 - 237,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Job summary

Circle is seeking an DP Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior data platform engineers. You will own the roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real‑time data services, and partner across Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Product Engineering, Security, and Finance.

This role combines leadership with hands‑on design reviews, coding, and architecture work. You will drive self‑service platforms, enforce data quality, and implement AI‑driven capabilities while

Qualifications

5+ years in data, ML, or platform engineering with track record of data platforms at scale.
Hands‑on experience building warehouse, orchestration, streaming, or ingestion systems.
Defined data SLOs, validation, and architectural changes when data was wrong or untrusted.
Led AI‑based or agentic data systems with proper access controls.
Designed self‑service platforms and driven adoption with minimal bespoke requests.

Responsibilities

Own vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real‑time data services.
Manage, coach, and grow senior engineers; develop ICs into technical leaders.
Lead AI‑agent management, guardrails, and review standards for data outputs.
Curate datasets with provenance, labeling workflows, access controls, and reproducibility.
Enable self‑service platform usage across data engineering, product, and analytics.
Maintain production platform with clear SLAs, cost attribution, and reliable monitoring.