Manager, Data Platform & AI Engineering (Hybrid)

CubeSmart; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

CubeSmart in Malvern, PA is seeking a Manager, Data Engineering to lead a data team responsible for building and evolving the enterprise data platform that powers analytics, reporting, AI, and critical business decisions.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, requiring experience designing and operating cloud data platforms and lakehouse architectures, and the ability to partner with business and technology leaders to deliver trusted data products.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or related technology disciplines, including experience leading engineering teams.
• Proven ability to develop talent, build accountability, and foster a collaborative, high-performing culture.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Python, PySpark, and modern data engineering practices.
• Experience designing, building, and operating modern cloud data platforms and lakehouse architectures, with hands-on experience in Databricks.
• Experience delivering Databricks-based data engineering solutions, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, and production operations.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, modeling, distributed data processing, data quality, security, governance, scalability, and production operations.
• Experience enabling AI, ML, Analytics, and Reporting workloads through enterprise data platforms.
• Experience leading teams using Agile delivery practices in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Data Engineering team through hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management.
• Advance strategy, roadmap, and evolution of CubeSmart’s cloud data platform, enabling Analytics, Reporting, Data Science, ML, AI, and other enterprise data capabilities.
• Drive adoption of the enterprise data platform through self-service analytics, trusted data products, conversational analytics, and AI agents.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, data, and AI technologies and identify opportunities to modernize, automate, and optimize enterprise capabilities.
• Foster a product-oriented engineering culture focused on delivering reusable, scalable, and business-aligned data products.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the data lifecycle, including architecture, modeling, ingestion, integration, batch and streaming pipelines, data quality, metadata and lineage, governance, and delivery of trusted data products.
• Define and implement platform controls for security, access, auditability, disaster recovery, resiliency, compliance, and operational risk.
• Partner with IT leadership and strategic vendors on platform optimization, cost management, and technology investments.
• Communicate architecture decisions, technical tradeoffs, risks, and business impact effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Databricks

Azure

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Azure Data Factory

Azure SQL

CI/CD

Job description

CubeSmart in Malvern, PA is seeking a Manager, Data Engineering to lead a data team responsible for building and evolving the enterprise data platform that powers analytics, reporting, AI, and critical business decisions.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, requiring experience designing and operating cloud data platforms and lakehouse architectures, and the ability to partner with business and technology leaders to deliver trusted data products.