Manager, Data Platforms

Safety National; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 101,500 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement savings match

Annual profit sharing contribution

Professional growth and development opportunities

Job summary

Safety National in St. Louis seeks a Manager, Data Platform to lead a team responsible for designing and enhancing enterprise data platforms. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and reliable.

The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of experience in data engineering, especially with modern cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. The role allows for a hybrid work schedule, with 3 days per week in the office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Strong experience with modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for enterprise data platforms.
• Shape the strategic direction of the data platform ecosystem.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-based capabilities.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud-based data platforms

Team leadership

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Snowflake

Job description

Role Description

As the Manager, Data Platform, you will lead a talented team responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and administering enterprise data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and business operations across the organization. You will help shape the strategic direction of our data platform ecosystem while ensuring it remains scalable, secure, reliable, and easy to use. In this role, you will partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Operations teams to deliver modern cloud-based platform capabilities that enable innovation and drive business value. You\'ll champion engineering best practices, automation, continuous improvement, and platform governance while mentoring your team and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, or related technical roles.
• 2 or more years of experience leading and managing technical teams or enterprise data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience building and administering cloud-based data platforms within AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, or similar technologies.
• Experience with enterprise platform design, configuration, administration, and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to improve platform scalability, performance, reliability, and usability.
• Experience leading platform automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern deployment practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.
• This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/DataOps practices.
• Knowledge of data platform security, governance, and access controls.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Experience leading platform modernization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Additional Information

Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with safety national policies, standards, and procedures.

About Safety National

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.

Total Rewards and Benefits

Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k) retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution. We offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, paid time off and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability. We also provide professional growth and development opportunities and well-being programs. The target base salary range for this position is $101,500 to $131,000. Compensation will consider the candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience and location.