Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Core
Senior technical leadership role building high-performing data engineering and machine learning teams in a fast-moving SaaS environment, focusing on scalable data pipelines, production ML systems, and analytics infrastructure.
Role type
Senior Manager, Data Engineering & ML
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, production ML systems, analytics infrastructure, and data-driven product capabilities (via careerplan.io/jobs/98724895-71fc-4a8d-9c69-1b912f9c5704-senior-manager-data-engineering-at-jobgether)
Domain
SaaS, Data Engineering, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
People leadership, data pipeline architecture, data governance, ML lifecycle management, statistical and ML concepts, SaaS product ownership, remote team management, AI-assisted development tools
Preferred skills
Experience with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude, Copilot), modern productivity tools (Gemini, NotebookLM)
Technologies
Salesforce, NetSuite, dbt, Fivetran, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Python, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Responsibilities
Lead and guide engineering teams across data engineering, enterprise data applications, and machine learning; Build and operationalize end-to-end data pipeline architecture; Partner with Finance, Sales, and Operations to develop unified reporting models; Establish and enforce data governance and analytics engineering standards; Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior and executive stakeholders; Collaborate with Staff and Principal Engineers to influence architecture; Provide technical leadership across ML engineering and data science initiatives; Set standards for feature engineering, model training, evaluation, serving, monitoring, and feedback loops; Establish appropriate SLAs, monitoring, on-call practices, and operational processes; Hire, onboard, coach, mentor, and manage a growing team; Lead teams effectively in a geographically distributed, remote-first environment; Drive continuous improvement through innovation and process development; Encourage effective use of AI coding agents and productivity tools
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on technical leadership with people management
