Senior Data Engineering Manager: Lead Teams

FanDuel; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Mentorship and development resources

FanDuel Total Rewards benefits

Inclusive, diverse workplace

Job summary

FanDuel is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a data engineering team building scalable data pipelines powering BI, analytics, fraud detection, and reporting. You'll partner with Data Architects, PMs, Analytics, and Engineering to define technical strategy, governance, and platform reliability while growing a high-performing team and managing budgets.

The role requires 10+ years in data roles and 3+ years leading teams, with deep experience in Python/Scala and cloud platforms like

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform, or related data roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and organizational development.
• Deep expertise building scalable data platforms and production-grade data pipelines, and strong experience with Python, Scala, or similar programming languages.
• Experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks (preferred), Delta Lake, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
• Proven experience driving complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through production.
• Experience leading technical architecture discussions and engineering design reviews.
• Experience in setting up self-healing and resilient data, and setting up monitoring and alerting using Monte Carlo, PagerDuty and DataDog.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build, and continuous improvement of scalable data pipelines, Lakehouse architectures, and data products on Databricks and AWS infrastructure.
• Manage up to 9 data engineers and 5 consultants—hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
• Plan and prioritize the team's work to deliver on-time, on-quality.
• Own production health, SLAs, and incident response; identify and resolve risks and blockers.
• Drive data architecture decisions to align across teams and drive platform coherence.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Python/Scala

Cloud data platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Team management

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Snowflake

BigQuery

DataDog

PagerDuty

Monte Carlo

Job description

FanDuel is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a data engineering team building scalable data pipelines powering BI, analytics, fraud detection, and reporting. You'll partner with Data Architects, PMs, Analytics, and Engineering to define technical strategy, governance, and platform reliability while growing a high-performing team and managing budgets.

The role requires 10+ years in data roles and 3+ years leading teams, with deep experience in Python/Scala and cloud platforms like