Hybrid Data Engineering Manager - Lead Pipelines & People

Jobtome; Greenville (NC); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtome in Greenville, SC is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a small data team and set its technical direction. You will stay hands-on with Python, SQL, and data pipeline engineering while developing people as much as systems.

The role emphasizes building scalable data platforms, promoting best-engineering practices, and delivering self-service analytics with governed data models in a casual, autonomous environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable technical experience, and 3+ years leading, mentoring, or providing technical direction
• Significant experience developing and supporting production data or software systems, including designing and building data pipelines and integrations
• Strong skills in SQL, Python (or another scripting language), DBT, Snowflake, Postgres, and SQL Server
• Experience with git version control, relational database design, and Linux/command-line environments
• Working knowledge of data warehousing, modern analytics architectures, formal data modeling, and workflow orchestration concepts (dependencies, retries, failure handling, monitoring, recovery)
• Bachelors degree in technical discipline

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team spanning database administration, data engineering, and reporting and analytics
• Set technical direction: automate manual and repetitive processes, select tools, and continuously improve the tech stack
• Remain a hands-on contributor, designing, building, troubleshooting, and reviewing Python and SQL solutions, pipelines, and integrations (Snowflake, DBT, DLT, and related tools)
• Promote strong engineering practices, including data modeling, source control, automated testing, code review, infrastructure as code, and monitoring and observability
• Advance self-service analytics and governed data models to reduce reliance on manually produced reports
• Manage the team budget, including software and vendor services, and pragmatically evaluate new technologies

Skills

Leadership

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Analytics

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

SQL

Python

DBT

Snowflake

Postgres

SQL Server

Git

Job description

Jobtome in Greenville, SC is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a small data team and set its technical direction. You will stay hands-on with Python, SQL, and data pipeline engineering while developing people as much as systems.

The role emphasizes building scalable data platforms, promoting best-engineering practices, and delivering self-service analytics with governed data models in a casual, autonomous environment.