Tech Lead Manager, Data Integration Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Tech Lead Manager to guide the Data Integration Platform team, owning the platform for ingress/egress of data across the company's ecosystem. You’ll define patterns, contracts, and SLAs, and steer scalable pipelines that feed analytics and AI features.

You will stay hands-on, shape architecture, review critical changes, and write production code where it unlocks team progress. On-site presence in SF is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in high-scale, high-reliability software development with platforms and data integration experience.
• 3+ years in engineering management including hiring, performance management, and mentoring.
• Hands-on coding ability with production-grade Python/Java/Scala and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with data governance, security, and scalable data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Data Integration Platform team, setting direction and priorities.
• Architect, review designs, and contribute production code to unblock progress.
• Define integration patterns, data contracts, and SLAs across data flows.
• Partner with Product, Security, Analytics, and external partners to scale data operations.

Skills

Data integration

Leadership

Python

SQL

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Airflow

Kubernetes

Security/compliance

Tools

Debezium

Fivetran/Airbyte

Iceberg

Snowflake

S3

Redshift

Job description

About the Role

As a Tech Lead Manager on the company's Data Intelligence Platform, leading the Data Integration Platform team, you will own the group that builds and operates the platform and infrastructure for the ingress and egress of first-party and third-party data into and out of the company's ecosystem. Your team will be responsible for building and operating reliable, scalable, and secure integration pipelines and connectors that move data between the company's internal systems and external partners, vendors, and data providers, powering analytics, experimentation, and AI-driven product experiences across the company.

You’ll partner closely with other Data Intelligence Platform squads as well as Product Engineering, Security, and Analytics teams to define integration patterns, data contracts, and SLAs that govern how data enters and leaves the company, supporting both high-scale batch workloads and latency-sensitive real-time flows. Your leadership will directly impact how the company ingests, exchanges, and delivers data - enabling trusted, self-serve, AI-ready data for Chimers across the company.

The company’s data integration platform is entering its next phase. As our data ecosystem grows, we have a significant opportunity to simplify and standardize how data moves across streaming, batch, and third-party integrations. You will lead the evolution toward a unified, secure, and reliable data conveyance platform while helping advance the company’s lakehouse architecture.

This is a manager-first, hands-on player-coach role. Your primary responsibility is leading and developing the team - setting direction and priorities, coaching engineers, and owning delivery and operational health. You will also remain technically engaged through high-leverage problems: shaping architecture, guiding designs, reviewing critical changes, and writing production code where it unlocks the team’s progress.

In this role, you

• Have 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and data integration or data movement systems.

• Have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.

• Bring hands-on coding ability and a genuine desire to remain technical while leading a team. You are comfortable writing and reviewing production code, particularly where it resolves ambiguity or unlocks the team’s progress.

• Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.

• Bring deep experience with data integration and movement components, such as ingestion and CDC pipelines, connector frameworks, event streaming, and API- and file-based (e.g., SFTP) data exchange alongside the data lakes/lakehouses (e.g., Iceberg) and warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) they feed and drain.

• Have proven expertise in system and data architecture for scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data platforms, including schema design, data contracts, and schema-evolution strategies across system boundaries.

• Are comfortable working with modern data and infrastructure technologies, such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, and connector/ingestion tooling (e.g., Debezium, Fivetran/Airbyte-style frameworks).

• Are hands-on proficient in Python (preferred) or a comparable language (e.g., Java, Scala), able to write, review, and ship production-quality code, and are fluent in SQL and performance tuning for analytical workloads.

• Have extensive experience in cloud-based data ecosystems, such as AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Snowflake, EMR), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow), or Azure equivalents.

• Understand data governance, security, and compliance best practices (e.g., RBAC, PII handling, auditability) especially for third-party data sharing and data crossing the company’s trust boundary and have helped design systems that meet regulatory and internal standards.

• Are deeply interested in the transformative potential of advanced AI systems and how to build AI-ready data foundations (metadata, lineage, semantic layers, and reliable data pipelines that feed them).

To thrive in this role, you

• Excel at building strong relationships with stakeholders across engineering, product, analytics, security, and finance, as well as external partners and vendors, and can translate between technical and business contexts.

• Demonstrate strong people leadership, with a track record of building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence.

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Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay. The actual base salary offered may higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Wage Notice

$199,000 - $275,000 USD

A little about us

At the company, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created the company - a financial technology company, not a bank* - on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasi