Data Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Omnidian, a fast-growing tech-enabled service company, as a Data Engineering Manager. Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, enhancing data engineering processes and standards. You will own and execute critical projects, establishing and maintaining a data engineering roadmap. This remote role requires extensive data engineering expertise, leadership skills, and strong communication abilities. Omnidian offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of Data Engineering processes and standards
• Comfort with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to provide mentoring cross-functionally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of business needs, users, technology, and data, and collaboration with stakeholders to design and deliver data solutions that provide business value
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying issues and implementing effective solutions
• 5+ years experience as a Data Engineer
• 3+ years experience as a people manager
• Experience successfully managing large scale data engineering projects
• Proficiency with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes
• Experience working with time series and IoT data
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
• Understanding of data modeling principles
• Proficiency with object oriented programming languages such as Python
• Comfort with SQL

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and coach a team of six Data Engineering professionals, fostering a collaborative environment
• Establish and continuously improve Data Engineering architecture, processes and standards
• Provide mentoring, coaching and leadership to matrixed (dotted-line) Data Engineers
• Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data engineering projects including project management and communication
• Mitigate risks and clear blockers
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives
• Contribute hands-on to the work as needed
• Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Engineering
• Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization
• Ensure scalable and cost effective architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Solar Industry experience
• Experience with Databricks
• Experience with RDS

Benefits

• Opportunity to work remotely
• Vibrant and creative co-working space in the heart of downtown Seattle (for Seattle-based employees)
• One or more local gatherings per year (for employees near employee clusters)
• Family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year
• Four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
• Competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
• 100% of health insurance monthly premiums for employees, and 50% for dependents
• Performance Bonus (Eligibility begins after 90 days)
• Equity Stake (stock options)
• Up to $500 annual learning reimbursement