Hands-on Data Engineering Manager — Azure & AI

Jobot; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Great benefits

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a hands-on Data Engineering Manager in Plano to lead a distributed team and shape the future of our data platform. This player/coach role blends technical leadership, architecture, and mentoring.

You will design scalable data pipelines on Azure, drive AI-ready infrastructure, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver value while maintaining governance and best practices.

Qualifications

• Leads Data Engineering teams and mentors a distributed group of engineers.
• Builds and evolves modern cloud-based data platforms, preferably on Azure.
• Supports enterprise data warehousing, lakehouse, or cloud analytics environments.
• Demonstrates strong SQL and modern data engineering technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers with technical guidance and day-to-day leadership.
• Design and evolve enterprise data architecture for scalability and security.
• Build and optimize modern data pipelines across multiple business systems.
• Drive migration to a modern cloud-based data platform and Azure-based solutions.
• Partner with AI engineers and business leaders to deliver data infrastructure for analytics/AI initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards, governance, and data quality practices.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Azure cloud

SQL skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data architecture

Dimensional modeling

Data governance

Agile PM

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Jobot is seeking a hands-on Data Engineering Manager in Plano to lead a distributed team and shape the future of our data platform. This player/coach role blends technical leadership, architecture, and mentoring.

You will design scalable data pipelines on Azure, drive AI-ready infrastructure, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver value while maintaining governance and best practices.