Senior Data Engineering Manager

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of data and platform engineers.
• Ensure the technical vision and roadmap for the data engineering organization aligns with business goals.
• Partner with leaders across Business Intelligence, Product, Engineering, Tech, and Business teams to translate business needs into a scalable data strategy.
• Oversee the design, build, and maintenance of robust data pipelines and ELT/ET frameworks.
• Supervise the architecture of scalable data models and storage solutions aligned with enterprise data standards.
• Ensure data systems adhere to best-in-class performance, security, governance, reliability, and scalability.
• Evaluate, introduce, and manage modern data tools and technologies.
• Lead and improve end-to-end data lifecycle processes, including ingestion, transformation, quality, testing, and monitoring.
• Implement data observability and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Ensure optimal performance, uptime, and resilience of mission-critical data workflows.
• Supervise the design, build, and maintenance of high-performance APIs and data services that support internal and external applications.
• Manage the design and deployment of event-driven data processing solutions using AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, and related serverless patterns.
• Lead the development of real-time and streaming data ingestion pipelines using platforms such as Kinesis, Kafka, or equivalent technologies

What you Bring to the Table

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 3+ years in a leadership or management role
• Deep hands-on expertise with the modern data stack technologies (e.g. AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, GitHub, Matillion, Openflow, Fivetran, etc.)
• Proven track record architecting large-scale, distributed data systems.
• Experience implementing automated testing, CI/CD, data quality frameworks, and observability tools.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex data topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Background in designing multi-environment (dev/staging/prod) data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and integrating APIs (REST, GraphQL, or similar) as part of data products or internal data services.

About New Western

• New Western makes real estate investing more accessible for everyone. As a marketplace that connects investors with off-market properties, we help drive local economic growth across the country. We're an engineering-led company scaling quickly, and we’re looking for smart, curious people who want to make an impact.

What We Offer

• Medical, Dental, Vision + Short-Term Disability
• 401K with Match
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunities for Growth in a Rapidly Scaling Company
• A Collaborative, Results-Driven Culture where your work is valued and visible