Technical Project Manager

The Value Maximizer; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions provider is seeking a Technical Project Manager with 13+ years of experience in data engineering and strong leadership in AWS services. The role involves architecting and delivering data and AI products in a hybrid work environment. Responsibilities include building high-performance ETL pipelines, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product and security teams. Applicants should possess deep expertise in AWS services, Python, and modern AI technologies to excel in this fast-paced role.

Qualifications

• 13+ years in data engineering/backend engineering.
• 4+ years leading technical teams.
• Deep expertise across AWS Data services & AI.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture for data ingestion and transformation.
• Build high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Partner with Data Scientists to operationalize models.

Skills

AWS Data services

AI technologies

Data engineering

Python

ETL/ELT design patterns

Terraform

Tools

AWS Glue

Amazon S3

Athena

Lambda

Apache Airflow

Job description

Role: Technical Project Manager - AWS Location: Fort Mill, SC/New York, NY/Austin, TX Experience: 13+ years Mode: Hybrid (3 days WFO) Duration: Full time

About the Role

We're looking for a hands‑on Technical Lead who lives and breathes AWS data engineering and modern AI. You'll architect, design, and deliver cutting‑edge data + AI solutions while guiding a sharp team of engineers. If Glue jobs, PySpark magic, serverless wizardry, Python scripts and AI/ML operationalization excite you—you'll feel right at home.

What You'll Own & Lead

Architecture & Delivery

• Drive end‑to‑end architecture for ingestion, transformation, analytics, and AI‑powered data products
• Set the standards, patterns, and roadmaps that shape our data future

Hands‑on Engineering

• Build high‑performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Python, and PySpark
• Craft serverless data services with Lambda, API Gateway & Step Functions
• Tune Athena, optimize S3 layouts, and lead complex data migrations like a pro

AI/ML Enablement

• Bring AI into real products: RAG pipelines, embeddings, inference endpoints, and more
• Partner with Data Scientists & ML Engineers to operationalize models with MLOps best practices

Quality, Security & Reliability

• Champion testing, data quality, observability, and lineage
• Enforce security‑by‑design with IAM, KMS, VPC endpoints, masking, and tokenization

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers, lead sprints, and elevate the team's technical bar
• Work closely with Product, Security, and Architecture to turn ideas into reality

What We Are Looking For

• 13+ years in data engineering/backend engineering, including 4+ years leading technical teams and driving architecture decisions
• Deep, hands‑on expertise across AWS Data services & AI:
• AWS Glue (Jobs, Crawlers, PySpark), Lambda (Python), Athena, S3, Glue Data Catalog
• Python for data engineering (PySpark) and service development
• ETL/ELT design patterns, orchestration (Step Functions / Airflow), and dimensional + Lakehouse modeling
• Data migration strategies, validation frameworks, and rollback planning
• Data lake architecture: Parquet, partitioning, with familiarity in Iceberg
• IaC with Terraform / AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Hands‑on experience with modern AI technologies and emerging AI tooling