Senior Engineering Manager, Data

Built Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Built is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Data to guide a high-impact data organization. You will lead data engineers building the industry's holistic data engine powering analytics, decisioning, workflow automation, and new product capabilities across Built.

You will lead the data engineering team responsible for building and operating foundational data capabilities across Built, including ingestion, modeling, governance, reliability, and self-serve analytics, enabling product teams and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an engineering management role leading teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Direct experience leading a data engineering or data platform team.
• Proven ability to scale teams and systems through hiring, process, architecture, and delivery.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Player-coach mindset with prior experience as an individual contributor.
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake, DBT, or Sigma.
• Experience building modern data platforms, including ELT, modeling layers, governance, and self-serve analytics.
• Travel: five to six times per year, including two Connect Weeks and leadership travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team.
• Own the data platform strategy.
• Deliver high-quality systems.
• Partner cross-functionally.
• Be a hands-on player-coach.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Hiring & team growth

Player-coach

Data collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Sigma

AWS

Job description

Built's Mission:

Connect and simplify doing business in real estate.

Built is the AI-powered platform transforming the way real estate is financed, developed, and managed. Purpose-built for real estate and construction, Built began by fixing construction draw management for lenders and has grown into a comprehensive operating system addressing some of the industry's most complex challenges. Today, Built is a partner to more than 350 lenders, over 80,000 borrowers and owners, and thousands of contractors, powering 86,000 active projects valued at more than $300 billion. Learn more at getbuilt.com.

Senior Engineering Manager, Data

Built is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Data to lead our growing data organization. In this role, you will guide a high-impact group of engineers building the industry's first holistic real estate data engine that powers analytics, decisioning, workflow automation, and new product capabilities across our platform. You will lead the data engineering team responsible for building and operating foundational data capabilities across Built, including ingestion, modeling, governance, reliability, and self-serve analytics. Your team will enable product teams and business stakeholders to confidently use data to drive outcomes, while maintaining high standards for security, quality, and performance. This is a hands-on, player-coach leader who can set technical direction, grow talent, and deliver durable systems at scale, while partnering closely with Product, Analytics, and Engineering peers.

This is an opportunity to lead a team building core infrastructure that shapes the company's future. You will influence how Built captures, normalizes, and activates the most critical data in our industry, with autonomy, executive visibility, and room to innovate. If you enjoy building platforms, raising engineering maturity, and scaling both teams and systems, this role sits at that intersection.

Challenge

Real estate finance data is complex. It is high-volume, multi-source, time-sensitive, and often messy. The challenge is to build a data engine that is:

• Trusted: accurate, governed, explainable
• Fast: optimized performance and cost, low latency where it matters
• Composable: clean models that scale with new products
• Self-serve: enables Product, Analytics, and GTM teams
• Reliable: observable, resilient, and operationally excellent

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the team

• Coach engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career development
• Hire and retain top talent and build a high-performance, inclusive culture
• Establish strong delivery and operational rituals, including planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews

Own the data platform strategy

• Define and evolve the architecture for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, and data products
• Drive a roadmap that balances foundational platform investments with product delivery needs
• Champion best practices, including dbt patterns, data contracts, testing, and documentation

Deliver high-quality systems

• Ensure pipelines and models are accurate, observable, secure, and scalable
• Improve reliability through alerting, SLAs and SLOs, runbooks, and root-cause analysis
• Partner with platform engineering on deployment patterns, cost optimization, and environment strategy

Partner cross-functionally

• Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Security, and Engineering leaders to ensure data enables customer and business outcomes
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders on tradeoffs, risks, and timelines
• Influence the broader organization on data quality, trust, and accountability

Be a hands-on player-coach

• Stay close to the work through architecture reviews, pairing, design docs, and occasional implementation
• Bring strong judgment to tooling and build-versus-buy decisions across Snowflake, DBT, and Sigma

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of experience in an engineering management role leading teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Direct experience leading a data engineering or data platform team specifically, not just general engineering management
• Proven ability to scale teams and systems through hiring, process, architecture, and delivery
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement
• Player-coach mindset with prior experience as an individual contributor
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake, DBT, or Sigma (deep experience in at least one)
• Experience building modern data platforms, including ELT, modeling layers, governance, and self-serve analytics
• Travel Requirement: This role should expect to travel approximately five to six times per year, including two company-wide Connect Weeks and additional PD&E leadership travel weeks to Nashville, TN or another designated location. Exact cadence varies based on business needs and role responsibilities.

Preferred

• Experience with streaming data patterns and event-driven architectures using Kafka
• Experience operating production systems in AWS and partnering closely with platform and SRE teams
• Exposure to AI/ML or data science workflows: you'll oversee a staff engineer focused on AI/ML, but hands-on AI/ML experience is a plus, not a requirement
• Comfort working in TypeScript and Python ecosystems for data-adjacent services and tooling
• Familiarity with data quality testing, lineage, observability, and access control patterns

Built's salary range for this position is $225,000 - 265,000 USD per year. The pay range is designed to accommodate upward mobility in the role; therefore, it encompasses the full span of proficiency levels for this role and we believe that the midpoint of the range is competitive in the market. Salary is just one component of Built's total compensation package for employees; your total rewards package at Built will include equity, market-current medical, dental and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and other benefits.

Travel Requirement

Employees