Senior Data Engineering Leader - Remote & Platform Impact

Bazeta; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Veracyte, a cancer care company, seeks a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to lead a high-performing team, shape architecture, and deliver scalable data platforms. You will work with analytics, science, product, and security stakeholders to translate complex needs into trusted data capabilities.

You will guide production pipelines, implement governance, and drive platform delivery with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, information systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in data engineering, software engineering, data platforms, or related fields.
• 5+ years of people-management experience managing teams and objectives.
• Experience leading a data engineering department or multiple disciplines for outcomes.
• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python; able to review code and guide designs.
• Experience with ETL/ELT, orchestration tools, distributed processing, and data quality controls.
• Experience establishing operational policies, schedules, and resource priorities.
• Experience managing technical debt and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a team of data engineers, including hiring and coaching.
• Guide architecture, code quality, troubleshooting, and key implementation decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into platform capabilities and plans.
• Establish and maintain data platform standards, governance, and operational processes.
• Make architectural decisions using AWS services and Snowflake.
• Improve CI/CD, observability, lineage, security, and privacy practices.
• Coordinate with Analytics, Data Science, Product, IT, and Security teams.
• Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory controls across data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

AWS S3/Glue

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data lakehouse

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Veracyte, a cancer care company, seeks a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to lead a high-performing team, shape architecture, and deliver scalable data platforms. You will work with analytics, science, product, and security stakeholders to translate complex needs into trusted data capabilities.

You will guide production pipelines, implement governance, and drive platform delivery with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.