Manager of Data Engineering

eNGINE; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

eNGINE in Pittsburgh is hiring a Manager of AI and Data Engineering to lead enterprise AI strategy, architecture, and platform delivery. This role owns the technical vision, establishes standards, and mentors engineers across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake.

You will shape AI lifecycle and governance, driving scalable, secure solutions across the organization. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in cloud-native AI, platform engineering, and emerging AI technologies, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline is required.
• 4+ years of hands-on data and AI engineering, including ML, analytics, or intelligent automation.
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale production AI solutions.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Establish technical standards, solution architectures, and engineering patterns for AI initiatives.
• Lead technology decisions involving AI platforms, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine enterprise applicability.
• Create scalable architectural patterns balancing innovation, maintainability, security, and cost.
• Serve as the coach for AI engineering across the organization.
• Design and evolve AI platform capabilities across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Establish platform strategies for Generative AI, RAG, machine learning, agent frameworks, vector search, and intelligent automation.
• Define standards for AI lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, and observability.
• Build reusable engineering capabilities that accelerate AI delivery.
• Establish AI engineering guardrails, governance controls, and operational standards.
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI agents and copilots.
• Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveraging enterprise knowledge assets.
• Design intelligent workflows that integrate AI into operational business processes.
• Build scalable API and microservices architectures exposing AI across applications.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered decision support, automation, and augmentation.
• Establish standards for prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation, and AI performance measurement.
• Serve as principal architect for highly complex AI and data initiatives.
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture governance.
• Partner with engineering teams to solve scalability, performance, reliability, and security challenges.
• Mentor and manage two or more engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices, standards, code quality, and technical coaching.

Skills

Leadership and cross-functional impact

Hands-on AI engineering leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or related

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

eNGINE builds Technical Teams. We are a Solutions and Placement firm shaped by decades of interaction with Technical professionals. Our inspiration is continuous learning and engagement with the markets we serve, the talent we represent, and the teams we build. Our Consulting Workforce is encouraged to enjoy career fulfillment in the form of challenging projects, schedule flexibility, and paid training/certifications. Successful outcomes start and finish with eNGINE.

eNGINE is hiring a Manager of AI and Data Engineering serves as the organization's lead engineer while developing talent in the Artificial Intelligence space. This person owns the technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, and future-state capabilities that enable AI at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, modern software engineering, cloud-native architectures, and emerging AI technologies. They combine the technical depth to solve complex engineering challenges with the leadership ability to influence technology strategy across business and IT stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

Enterprise AI and Data Engineering

• Establish technical standards, solution architectures, and engineering patterns for all AI initiatives
• Lead technology decisions involving AI platforms, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine their enterprise applicability
• Create scalable architectural patterns that balance innovation, maintainability, security, and cost
• Serve as the coach for AI engineering across the organization
• Design and evolve AI platform capabilities across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake
• Establish platform strategies for Generative AI, RAG, machine learning, agent frameworks, vector search, and intelligent automation
• Define standards for AI lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, and observability
• Build reusable engineering capabilities that accelerate AI delivery
• Establish AI engineering guardrails, governance controls, and operational standards

AI Application and Agent Development

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI agents and copilots
• Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions that leverage enterprise knowledge assets
• Design intelligent workflows that integrate AI into operational business processes
• Build scalable API and microservices architectures that expose AI capabilities across applications
• Drive adoption of AI-powered decision support, automation, and augmentation
• Establish standards for prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation, and AI performance measurement

Advanced Engineering Leadership

• Serve as principal architect for highly complex AI and data initiatives
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture governance
• Partner with engineering teams to solve difficult scalability, performance, reliability, and security challenges
• Mentor and manage two or more engineers
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices, standards, code quality, and technical coaching

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline
• 4+ years of hands-on data and AI engineering, including machine learning, advanced analytics, or intelligent automation
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale production AI solutions
• Exceptional communication and influence skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority

Required Technical Expertise

• Microsoft Fabric
• Databricks
• Snowflake

No C2C, relocation, referral, or sponsorship candidates for this role.