Senior Manager, Data Engineering — BI & Analytics Lead

Carrot; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Parental leave

Family‑forming benefits

Equity

Job summary

Carrot is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to lead the BI data engineering function as it scales, combining strategic leadership with hands-on architecture and coding.

You will guide a high-impact team, shape the data platform, and ensure reliable, secure data delivery across the organization and its clients. In this senior role, you’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Security, and Legal to align priorities, remove blockers, and drive a scalable data strategy in a regulated

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in data engineering; 3–5+ years leading engineers.
• 5+ years SQL and 5+ years Python in production, with testing.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Proficiency with Snowflake and AWS; knowledge of data governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the BI data engineering vision and roadmap aligned with analytics needs.
• Design, build, review scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration systems.
• Architect and optimize data warehouse models for self-service BI and reporting.
• Set standards for reliability, observability, testing, and performance.
• Improve data quality, lineage, governance, and metadata practices.
• Partner with product engineering to co-design production schemas and events.
• Lead and mentor data engineers; manage capacity and delivery across workstreams.
• Translate business needs into a prioritized engineering roadmap.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Advanced SQL

Python development

ETL pipelines

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Fivetran

Prefect

Airflow

Data modeling

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Fivetran

dbt

Prefect

Airflow

Job description

Carrot is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to lead the BI data engineering function as it scales, combining strategic leadership with hands-on architecture and coding.

You will guide a high-impact team, shape the data platform, and ensure reliable, secure data delivery across the organization and its clients. In this senior role, you’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Security, and Legal to align priorities, remove blockers, and drive a scalable data strategy in a regulated