Senior Data Engineering Leader: Scale, Quality & Governance

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

Maternity & Parental leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Senior Manager to lead a high-performing data engineering team. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, models, and curated datasets, ensuring quality, lineage, and compliance for trusted data used by AWS product leadership.

You will set the technical vision, drive on-call excellence, and grow the team as demand increases, partnering with BI, Applied Science and SDE teams and stakeholders across AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years in data engineering
• Experience managing large teams (15–25+ engineers)
• Strong communication with executives and non-technical leaders
• Hands-on data engineering: modeling, ETL/ELT, warehouse operations
• Experience with AWS data services and data governance

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing data engineering team across multiple data domains
• Set technical vision and delivery roadmap with senior engineers
• Own end-to-end data solutions including pipelines and datasets
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and compliance
• Manage on-call, SLAs, incident response and reliability metrics
• Collaborate with BI, Applied Science and SDE teams and business stakeholders
• Represent the team in executive reviews and cross-team initiatives
• Shape engineering culture and standards across the organization

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

AWS data services

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Redshift

S3

Glue

EMR

Kinesis

Lambda

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Senior Manager to lead a high-performing data engineering team. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, models, and curated datasets, ensuring quality, lineage, and compliance for trusted data used by AWS product leadership.

You will set the technical vision, drive on-call excellence, and grow the team as demand increases, partnering with BI, Applied Science and SDE teams and stakeholders across AWS.