Senior Data Platform TPM: Lead Data Engineers & Pipelines

Bloomberg Industry Group; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg Industry Group is seeking a senior-level data engineering leader to build, scale, and maintain enterprise data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and business decision-making.

You will lead a team of data engineers, establish objectives and development plans, recruit top talent, and drive engineering best practices and operational excellence across programs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technology, data engineering, software engineering, or program management.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams or managing technical programs.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, including:

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers.
• Establish team objectives, performance expectations, and career development plans.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.
• Drive engineering best practices, technical standards, and operational excellence.
• Own the planning, prioritization, and execution of complex data engineering initiatives.
• Develop and maintain program roadmaps aligned with organizational and business objectives.
• Manage dependencies, risks, timelines, resources, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and meet quality standards.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions.
• Guide the implementation of modern data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and streaming architectures.
• Ensure data engineering solutions follow best practices for reliability, observability, governance, and security.
• Support architectural reviews and technical decision-making processes.
• Partner closely with business leaders, product managers, analytics teams, data scientists, and platform engineering teams.
• Translate business requirements into executable technical programs.
• Communicate program status, risks, and outcomes to leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Drive alignment across technical and business teams.
• Define and monitor KPIs and SLOs for data platforms.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Implement processes that improve data quality, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
• Drive automation and optimization of engineering workflows.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Program management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication

Tools

ETL/ELT

Data lakes

Data warehouses

Streaming architectures

Observability

Job description

Bloomberg Industry Group is seeking a senior-level data engineering leader to build, scale, and maintain enterprise data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and business decision-making.

You will lead a team of data engineers, establish objectives and development plans, recruit top talent, and drive engineering best practices and operational excellence across programs.