Technical Manager, Data Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Voleon, a leading technology company in finance, as a Technical Manager, Data Infrastructure Engineering. Lead a high-performing team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining key data technologies and services. Develop and execute a roadmap for your team, ensuring reliable delivery of performant and resilient data platforms. Collaborate with engineering leadership and research counterparts to achieve the firm's objectives. Mentor and grow individual contributors, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. This role requires strong technical skills, people management experience, and a proven ability to lead complex projects.

Requirements

• 2+ years of people management experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrated history of management of engineering teams and senior engineers
• Exceptional communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
• Proven ability to hire and retain exceptional engineers
• Software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and maintainability
• Expertise in modern programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C++
• Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
• Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure
• Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, technologies, and development methodologies
• Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage a team of engineers
• Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent
• Develop ambitious yet achievable goals for your team, and reliably deliver results
• Work closely with stakeholders to develop a roadmap and future vision for your team
• Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level your team
• Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, including design and implementation of distributed data processing systems, maintenance and deployment of production workflows, tool development, and more
• Support our trading operations and promote our research effort through reliable and timely delivery of high-quality data
• Build scalable data infrastructure, robust storage and distribution systems, and fault-tolerant production-critical pipelines
• Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 20 days of paid time off
• 9 sick days
• A 401(k) plan with a company match