Technical Manager

Summary

Join Viator, a Tripadvisor company, and lead a high-performing team of analytics engineers. You will foster a collaborative culture, develop project plans, and act as a hands-on developer. Responsibilities include driving technology strategy, prioritizing product features, and communicating with stakeholders. You'll need ten years of analytics engineering experience, three years managing teams, and a strong understanding of data technologies. The ideal candidate will possess strong mentorship skills and a proven ability to lead projects in fast-paced environments. Viator offers competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Ten years’ experience in analytics engineering (or equivalent roles)
• Three years managing five to ten analytics engineers, across one or two teams
• Background of working in a product-focused company, collaborating closely with stakeholders to build up a backlog of product and technical initiatives
• Directly responsible for giving performance feedback and providing formal career planning to their team
• Strong mentorship skills, helping analytics engineers to grow technically and professionally
• Solid understanding of the technologies and tools used by their team, with hands-on experience of designing and building scalable data solutions
• Excellent ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions
• Proven leadership in driving major projects and actively participating in cross-functional teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments
• Accountable for high-quality execution, operations and overall team performance
• Uses strong analytical skills to identify risks early, mitigate issues and provide contingency plans
• Adept at making high-level decisions about product and technical direction, balancing business objectives with engineering capabilities
• Understands modern software delivery methodologies and project management tools and uses them to drive successful outcomes
• Cloud Data Warehouse (Big Query, Snowflake, Redshift etc)
• Data modelling design
• Advanced SQL
• DBT
• Airflow (or similar tool)
• ELT
• Looker (or similar tool)

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing technical team by hiring, training, and mentoring analytic engineers of all levels
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture and champion effective Agile development processes
• Develop project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation strategies, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope and budget
• Show leadership as a hands-on developer in the data transformation space. Perform code and design reviews
• Work closely with principal analytics engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns to the wider organisation vision
• Work closely with your Product Manager counterpart and the business owner to prioritize product features along with the analytics engineering-driven tasks, striving for a good balance between business results and robustness
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, commitments, and timelines
• Define and enforce engineering best practices to ensure deliverables are complete, on time, and meeting a high-quality standard

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• ���Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Viator takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums