Sr. Manager, Data Foundations

Chamberlain Group; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Chamberlain Group seeks a senior data and analytics engineering leader to guide teams delivering production data pipelines, curated data products, and semantic models within a governed Databricks lakehouse. You will own platform administration, data quality, observability, security, and cost optimization while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders.

You will influence roadmap progress, drive AI-assisted development, and travel up to 5% as needed to align with business goals.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Databricks expertise.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Experience with data modeling and CI/CD processes.
• Leadership of data/analytics engineering teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 5%.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering and analytics engineering teams delivering production pipelines, curated data products, semantic models, dashboards, and governed Databricks lakehouse capabilities.
• Own platform administration, data quality, observability, security, cost optimization, reliability, and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and drive AI-assisted development while partnering with stakeholders and reporting roadmap progress to leadership.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD

Databricks

Data engineering leadership

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Leads data engineering and analytics engineering teams delivering production pipelines, curated data products, semantic models, dashboards, and governed Databricks lakehouse capabilities. Owns platform administration, data quality, observability, security, cost optimization, reliability, and engineering standards. Manages internal and external resources, mentors engineers, drives AI-assisted development, partners with stakeholders, and reports roadmap progress to leadership.

Requires strong hands-on Databricks expertise, technical leadership, advanced SQL, data modeling, CI/CD, and up to 5% travel.