Data Platform Leader — Senior Manager (Remote)

veracyte; United States; Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Discretionary bonus

Restricted stock units

Job summary

Veracyte seeks a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team building an enterprise data platform delivering trusted data across scientific, clinical, operational, and commercial functions. You will own modern data lake/lakehouse environments and partner with analytics, data science, product, clinical, software engineering, security, and IT.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical work, including guiding AWS services (S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch) and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in data/software engineering, with 5+ years in people management.
• Experience leading a data engineering function delivering business outcomes.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production data pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
• Proficiency with SQL and Python; experience with ETL/ELT and data quality, observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers, including hiring, performance management, career development, and team-effectiveness practices.
• Stay close to the technical work to guide architecture, design reviews, code quality, troubleshooting, and key implementation decisions.
• Translate business and scientific requirements into platform capabilities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain platform standards, governance practices, architectural guidelines, and operational processes.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions using AWS services such as S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch, along with complementary technologies such as Snowflake.
• Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD, automated testing, observability, lineage, documentation, security, privacy, and code-quality practices; balance delivery, operations, enhancements, technical‑debt reduction, vendor relationships, and resourcing.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Data architecture

Data pipelines

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Veracyte seeks a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team building an enterprise data platform delivering trusted data across scientific, clinical, operational, and commercial functions. You will own modern data lake/lakehouse environments and partner with analytics, data science, product, clinical, software engineering, security, and IT.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical work, including guiding AWS services (S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch) and