Data Engineering Manager
Core
Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable data platforms and data products that power personalized customer experiences across digital retail channels.
Role type
Senior IC Data Engineering Manager (People & Platform)
Builds
Scalable batch/streaming data platforms, feature stores, APIs, and data services for personalization, search, and recommendations.
Domain
Retail / E-commerce / Customer Personalization / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership, hiring, performance management, data architecture, distributed systems, ETL/ELT, streaming architectures, Python, SQL, Apache Spark, Kafka, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), data lake/lakehouse patterns, API design, observability, security, scalability.
Preferred skills
Retail/e-commerce domain, personalized search, recommendation engines, customer 360, clickstream analytics, collaborative filtering, embeddings, vector search, MLOps, feature stores, A/B testing.
Technologies
Python, SQL, Apache Spark, Kafka, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Data Engineers; design and operate scalable data platforms; develop data products for search, ranking, and recommendations; establish engineering standards and operational excellence; partner with Data Science and Product teams to enable personalization; drive technical strategy and roadmaps.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership