Manager, Data Engineering

Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, driven and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a true team focused on doing the right thing feels like! 

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Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career! 

The Manager, Data Engineering, is responsible for turning data architecture vision into reliable, repeatable, and scalable data pipelines and data products as part of Skillable’s enterprise data platform. Manage a team of at least five employees and be hands-on in technical ownership of the data engineering function. Lead day-to-day engineering execution while setting strong data engineering practices across ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team by hiring and onboarding talent, setting clear expectations, conducting formal performance reviews, and coaching accountability. 

• Lead the team to deliver on the enterprise data platform roadmap by translating architecture direction into sequenced execution plans, team backlogs, and measurable outcomes.  

• Create a strong engineering culture across the team by setting standards for maintainability, organization, and repeatability; growing engineers via regular 1:1s, timely feedback, development plans, and formal review cycles; and being responsible for overall team performance and cohesion. 

• Own day-to-day execution for the Data Engineering team by breaking work into tasks, driving sprint-level planning, delegating effectively to grow ownership, unblocking delivery, and ensuring high-quality outcomes through engineering reviews and feedback. 

• Drive implementation of the Medallion architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) with strong enforcement of layer responsibilities, ensuring repeatable and auditable pipeline behavior leveraging Boomi, Dbt, Azure Data Bricks, Boomi/Rivery, Delta tables, and Sql Server. 

• Partner closely with the Data Architect to bring the architecture to life through concrete implementation patterns, reference pipelines, and guardrails—ensuring the team can consistently execute the intended approach. 

• Reduce friction by driving crisp decisions and forward motion—using lightweight decision records, seeking the right input, and then executing accountability (while avoiding overly heavy process).  

• Establish DataOps practices aligned with modern software development lifecycle (SDLC): CI/CD for data assets, consistent branching/release patterns, code review standards, and runbooks/operational readiness for pipelines.  

• Improve pipeline observability and operational reliability by implementing monitoring for freshness/staleness, failure modes, and quality signals, and ensuring the team responds predictably to incidents and support requests.  

• Drive stakeholder partnership and intake stream: collaborate with business partners to clarify requirements, reduce ad-hoc thrash, and shape requests into deliverable, well-scoped work that fits the platform strategy. 

• Develop future leaders and succession plans for key roles through assigning regularly occurring responsibilities, mentoring, and strategic delegation. 

• Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis. 

• Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or relevant professional experience. 

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in software / data engineering, including building production data pipelines and data platforms. 

• 2+ years of experience in lead capacity (formal or informal) including team leadership, task breakdown, reviews, delivery ownership, and cross-functional coordination. 

• Experience directly managing a team, including hiring/interviewing and conducting formal performance reviews. 

• Deep hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark), Boomi/Rivery, and Delta Lake patterns for scalable lakehouse processing.  

• Strong experience with ETL/ELT design and implementation, including orchestration/ingestion into transformation workflows across curated layers.  

• Experience partnering with application and database teams to define efficient, non-disruptive data access patterns for upstream SQL Server systems (read replicas, CDC, snapshot isolation, batching strategies). 

• Demonstrated expertise implementing Medallion architecture with clear separation of concerns across Bronze/Silver/Gold, including enforcing “no consumer reads from Bronze” style guardrails.  

• Strong understanding of ingestion/source variability (APIs, CDC-enabled databases, file drops) and the ability to select appropriate ingestion strategies per source contract. 

• Track record of improving team maturity from reactive delivery to repeatable engineering execution (standards, patterns, documentation, and predictable throughput). Interest and ability in mentoring and/or training other team members as applicable. 

• Experience working cross-functionally and promoting collaborative partnerships to drive results. 

• Proven ability to communicate effectively to various audiences/levels, both internal and external stakeholders, including leadership through various mediums. 

• Ability to present and convey material both formally and informally to all levels of an organization. 

• Proven organization skills with the ability to address short-term and long-term demands simultaneously. 

• Easily adaptable with the ability to pivot with changing business needs, keeping a professional demeanor and leading by example for other colleagues. 

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines. 

• High level of confidence, integrity, and professional courtesy. 

• Strong Microsoft suite experience, including teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software experience preferred. 

• Naturally inquisitive with a desire to learn, solve problems, and dig into detailed analysis. 

• Experience working in a fully remote team is preferred but not required. 

• Thorough understanding (or willingness to learn expeditiously) of business operations and processes. 

Salary Range 

The base salary for this position is $140,000 - $185,000 annually. Consistent with applicable laws, compensation will be determined based on the candidate's level, relevant skills, qualifications, and experience along with requirements for the position and annual financial plans. 

Skillable is a distributed first team with employees working across the U.S., and we do not consider geography when determining compensation ranges. 

Pay range and current benefit offerings are effective for 90 days from posting date.  Standard employment offerings are subject to potential change upon periodic review and analysis, at the discretion of Skillable.

What’s in it for You?  Rewards and Perks 

We believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first.  Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including: 

• Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies 
• Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options. 
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements. 
• Open PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave. 
• Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time; Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week. 
• Access to pet insurance; Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!   

Working Conditions:  

The job conditions for this position are in a remote home office setting, requiring a space that supports privacy and focus to attend to regular and frequent video and voice calls. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Periodic travel may be required equaling up to approximately 10% of the time.

Skillable participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work int he U.S.  If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment.  

Skillable can only hire potential candidates with a primary residence in the following States: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, MA, ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI.