Technical Manager – Data, Cloud & AI Leadership

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc in; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite fitness center

Onsite catering

Tuition reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Job summary

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc is seeking a hands-on Technical Manager to guide a growing analytics team. You will spend ~25-40% of your time coding and designing, with the rest coaching engineers, driving delivery, and ensuring operational excellence in a modern cloud environment.

The ideal candidate has deep system design experience, strong coding ability, and can lead through influence, aligning product directions with technical execution across AWS, Snowflake, and data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong coding ability and system design depth with distributed services in production.
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot, React, and cloud-native deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of full stack developers and cloud engineers, covering ETL and data pipelines.
• Handle hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Partner with Product Managers on roadmap execution and staffing needs.
• Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning.
• Maintain JIRA dashboards and multi-sprint views for the team.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Own AWS-based architecture, ensuring security, scalability, and cost awareness.
• Define engineering standards for API design, REST and event-driven patterns.
• Ensure production readiness, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment frequency and quality gates.
• Define automated testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Lead ETL/data integration work with Python and ensure data quality controls.
• Coordinate data platform usage in AWS; Snowflake and Google Analytics for modeling and reporting.
• Implement secure-by-default development practices and least-privilege access.
• Communicate risks and progress to leadership and partner teams.
• Drive capacity planning and environment strategy for QA and performance testing.
• Explore AI-enabled automation opportunities with guardrails.
• Create metrics to track delivery, quality, and reliability; manage budget.

Skills

Software leadership

System design

Distributed services

Communication

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

React

AWS

Snowflake

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

SOLR

PostgreSQL

Aurora

RDS

Job description

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc is seeking a hands-on Technical Manager to guide a growing analytics team. You will spend ~25-40% of your time coding and designing, with the rest coaching engineers, driving delivery, and ensuring operational excellence in a modern cloud environment.

The ideal candidate has deep system design experience, strong coding ability, and can lead through influence, aligning product directions with technical execution across AWS, Snowflake, and data platforms.