Remote Senior Manager, Motorsports Data Platform & AI

General Motors; Clayton (NC); Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Motorsports Data Infrastructure and Data Science teams, unifying data pipelines and AI tools for racing programs. You will stay hands-on as the senior technical authority, shaping architecture and delivering high-impact features for race engineers.

You will partner with engineering and leadership to align strategy with race calendars, manage Azure Databricks workloads, and drive data-driven decisions across GM Motorsports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 10+ years in data engineering, software engineering, or data science delivering production data platforms.
• 5+ years leading engineering or data science teams, including managing managers, while remaining an active technical contributor.
• Deep expertise with Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows/DLT) and Azure data services.
• Proven record of taking ML/AI into production, incl. feature engineering, model lifecycle, MLOps, and monitoring.
• Experience with real-time streaming and high-frequency time-series data.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, plus CI/CD, Git, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to communicate complex topics to engineering and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Motorsports Data Infrastructure and Data Science managers and their teams, growing technical leaders.
• Integrate data engineering, software, and data science into one roadmap and operating model.
• Contribute hands-on as the senior technical lead: architect pipelines and platforms, prototype ML/GenAI solutions, review code.
• Own the motorsports data platform roadmap: ingestion, streaming, lakehouse, governance, and AI enablement.
• Unify real-time and batch data pipelines into a cohesive platform processing telemetry and trackside data.

Skills

Data engineering

Software engineering

Data science

Azure Databricks

Python

SQL

ML/AI in production

Real-time streaming

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Databricks (Azure)

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Motorsports Data Infrastructure and Data Science teams, unifying data pipelines and AI tools for racing programs. You will stay hands-on as the senior technical authority, shaping architecture and delivering high-impact features for race engineers.

You will partner with engineering and leadership to align strategy with race calendars, manage Azure Databricks workloads, and drive data-driven decisions across GM Motorsports.