Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Paramount Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Generous PTO

Streaming subscriptions

Employee engagement programs

Job summary

Skydance’s Applied Intelligence Data Engineering team is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale batch and real-time data platforms. You will guide distributed systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure, while developing talent, ensuring reliability, scalability, and measurable performance.

Join us to mentor engineers, set architectural direction, and collaborate with data product management and software teams to drive

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering large-scale production data platforms.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems engineering and cloud-native architecture.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale data engineering teams managing batch and streaming systems.
• Architect scalable data platforms with efficient data models and fast analytics.
• Collaborate with data product management and software engineers to align roadmaps and KPIs.
• Drive architectural reviews and foster reliability, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data lakes/warehouses

ETL/ELT

Kafka/Event-driven

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Orchestration tools

Job description

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The Applied Intelligence Data Engineering team is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead the design, delivery, and operational excellence of large-scale batch and real-time data platforms. This role will oversee high-performance data engineering teams that power analytics, APIs, AI workflows, and mission-critical data services across the organization. You will guide the design and execution of distributed data systems. This includes ETL and ELT pipelines. It also includes streaming platforms, warehouse ecosystems, and cloud-native infrastructure. As a manager, you will shape technical direction, develop engineering talent, and ensure production-grade reliability, scalability, and operational rigor across data platforms.

This role requires expertise in modern data architectures and distributed systems. You should also have knowledge of cloud-native engineering. It is essential to have proven experience in leading high-performing engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead & Scale Data Engineering Teams

• Manage and develop a team of data engineers responsible for batch and streaming data systems.
• Drive technical execution across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers.
• Establish engineering standards, code quality practices, and architectural review processes.
• Mentor engineers in distributed systems design, performance optimization, and production reliability.

Architect Scalable Data Platforms

• Ensure scalable data modeling standards and efficient query performance across analytical workloads.
• Guide decisions about architecture. This includes orchestration and schema evolution. It also covers partitioning strategies and storage optimization.
• Partner with streaming engineers to align batch and real-time data patterns into cohesive platform designs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Data Product Management to align roadmap priorities, SLAs, and platform KPIs.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate streaming systems, APIs, and microservices into the broader data ecosystem.
• Clearly communicate architectural tradeoffs to stakeholders. Share delivery risks and operational constraints as well.

Technical Leadership

• Lead architectural reviews and drive long-term platform strategy.
• Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

Modern Data Architecture

• Strong expertise in data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, orchestration platforms, and distributed data processing systems.
• Solid understanding of Kafka-based architectures and event-driven data patterns.

Team Development & Coaching

• Proven experience hiring, onboarding, and retaining high-performing engineers across varying seniority levels.
• Commitment to building an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.

Execution & Delivery Leadership

• Strong sprint planning, capacity modeling, and roadmap sequencing skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across reliability, feature delivery, and technical debt reduction.
• Experience establishing engineering KPIs such as reliability, latency, throughput, and deployment frequency.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering large-scale production data platforms.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems engineering and cloud-native architecture.
• You should have great communication skills. You also need to collaborate with different teams.
• You should be self-motivated. Focus on quality. A commitment to engineering excellence and operational discipline is essential.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $139,200.00 - 208,800.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here .
• Generous paid time off.
• Complimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.
• Robust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.

Skydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)

We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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