Data Platform Engineering Manager

HNI Corporation; Muscatine (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HNI Corporation seeks a Manager, Data Engineering - Platform to lead a small data-engineering team and shape the data foundation powering BI, analytics, and AI. Location options include Muscatine, Iowa or Chicago, IL; this hands-on player-coach role emphasizes platform design, security, and cost management.

The ideal candidate will bring 7+ years in data engineering on a major cloud platform (Azure preferred), plus 2+ years in leadership, with strong Python/SQL expertise and experience across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform engineering on a major cloud platform.
• 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing a team of data engineers.
• Expertise in SQL and Python with hands-on pipelines across APIs, ERP systems (Oracle EBS or SAP), and file-based sources.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses or lakehouses (Snowflake preferred; Databricks/Redshift/BigQuery).
• Experience with cloud data lake (ADLS/S3/GCS), orchestration (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster), and CI/CD with Git.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise data platform strategy, standards, and roadmap.
• Lead design and implementation of cloud data platform on Azure, Snowflake, Databricks.
• Develop scalable pipelines to land source data to raw layer and downstream apps.
• Oversee CI/CD frameworks, orchestration services, and deployment support.
• Manage platform infrastructure as code and ensure security, cost, and compliance.

Skills

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

SQL

Prefect

Airflow

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD

Leadership

Security

Governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Data Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

HNI Corporation seeks a Manager, Data Engineering - Platform to lead a small data-engineering team and shape the data foundation powering BI, analytics, and AI. Location options include Muscatine, Iowa or Chicago, IL; this hands-on player-coach role emphasizes platform design, security, and cost management.

The ideal candidate will bring 7+ years in data engineering on a major cloud platform (Azure preferred), plus 2+ years in leadership, with strong Python/SQL expertise and experience across