Remote Data Engineering Manager — ML/MLOps on Databricks

Datapao; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Spain

Job summary

Datapao is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a core data engineering team of five to six consultants, while remaining hands-on with delivery. The role covers data engineering, ML/MLOps, and cloud migration for enterprise customers, primarily on Databricks. The team will focus on Spain-based remote work with plans to scale to 65 people in 12–18 months.

You will mentor, hire, and shape culture as the practice grows, driving high-impact outcomes across data platforms and governance.

Qualifications

• Consulting mindset with focus on customer outcomes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with distributed systems knowledge.
• Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL and big data tech.
• Willingness to lead teams and own delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a squad of data engineering consultants, balancing people leadership with direct project delivery.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of data engineering, ML/MLOps, and cloud migration engagements, stepping in technically when needed.
• Architect and optimize scalable, high-performance pipelines that move, transform, and store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across enterprise estates.
• Build ETL and ELT workflows that ingest from sources such as Oracle, Snowflake, and Redshift, and apply modern open table formats including Delta Lake, Iceberg, and Hudi.
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, and data governance teams to ensure reliability, observability, and monitoring through modern tooling.
• Coach consultants, run hiring and onboarding, and shape culture as the team scales or as a new sub-team is stood up.

Skills

Consulting mindset

Stack-agnostic engineering

SQL

NoSQL

Apache Spark

Real-time processing

Distributed systems

Tools

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Hudi

Job description

Datapao is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a core data engineering team of five to six consultants, while remaining hands-on with delivery. The role covers data engineering, ML/MLOps, and cloud migration for enterprise customers, primarily on Databricks. The team will focus on Spain-based remote work with plans to scale to 65 people in 12–18 months.

You will mentor, hire, and shape culture as the practice grows, driving high-impact outcomes across data platforms and governance.