Sr Manager, Data Platforms

We are seeking an experienced technical manager to lead our enterprise data platforms. As the Senior Manager, Data Platforms you will lead a talented engineering and operations team focused on building and supporting secure, performant, and scalable next gen data platforms that include SQL Server databases, Snowflake, Databricks, MS Fabric, PowerBI, dbt, azure data services and other modern AI/ML technologies. You’ll partner closely with product managers, data engineering, architecture, governance, and business analytics teams to ensure the platform evolves to meet the growing data needs across the enterprise. This role is not just about managing a platform—it's about building a vision, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and leading a team that ensures our data infrastructure meets both present and future needs. 

JOB DUTIES 

• Lead Platform Development – Own the end-to-end engineering Data platform, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and extensibility 

• Lead the strategic direction of the Data Platform, designing a scalable and high-performance architecture that evolves with the business goals and customer needs 

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities 

• Oversee critical infrastructure, including OLTP databases, near real-time data pipelines, batch processing systems and frameworks that make data infrastructure accessible for engineering teams 

• Create and maintain run books and knowledge bases for platform operations team 

• Drive performance optimization, enhancing query performance, reducing latency, and ensuring efficient compute 

• Ensure seamless integration of data systems across the company, collaborating with data engineering and analytics teams to align solutions with business needs 

• Establish monitoring solutions for data pipelines and infrastructure, proactively identify bottlenecks, optimize performance ensuring high availability, performance, and security 

• Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues 

• Performs after-hours support for critical production systems with occasional, scheduled maintenance or release deployments 

• Monitor and optimize platform operational cost 

• Generate and present operational metrics (volumes, errors, trends etc.) to various stakeholders 

• Provide audit & compliance support as needed 

• Partner with internal customers and product teams to drive the platform roadmap, evangelize the use of the platform and accelerate adoption of the platform 

• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the team 

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry best practices to continuously improve the technical architecture and drive the adoption of new tools and methodologies to enhance our platform. 

• Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization 

• Provide constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience 

• Share domain and technical expertise by providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members 

• Review solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction, provide technical guidance and expertise to development teams, reviewing code and design decisions as needed 

• Provide input to key technical resources at critical points in the corporate-level decision-making process about long-range technical objectives 

• Establish, maintain and nurture vendor/partner relationships  

YOU MUST HAVE 

• 10+ years’ overall experience designing, deploying and managing /supporting RDBMS, Data Warehouse systems, Data Lake, and BI solutions, including working with platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau 

• 5+ years’ overall experience and proficiency in Snowflake advanced concepts like resource monitors, RBAC controls, virtual warehouse sizing, query performance tuning, zero copy clone, time travel, and cost governance 

• 10+ years of advanced SQL proficiency 

• 5+ years’ hands-on public cloud experience including experience with technologies and tools such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Configuration Management, and Provisioning Automation with tools such as Github