DATA ENGINEERING MANAGER - Hybrid out of Insight Global HQ in Dunwoody GA!
The Data, Insight, & Analytics (DIA) team at Insight Global drives organization-wide reporting, data science, and machine learning initiatives at scale. As a Data Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading a Data Engineering team within DIA organization reporting to the Director of Data Engineering. The Data Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the primary data estate for Insight Global. Team activities focus on Data Ingestion & Integration of key internal and external sourced data through the design & creation of data pipelines, and shaping data assets that power the Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Machine Learning use cases throughout the company. For this role, Insight Global is looking for an experienced manager of data teams, ideally with history of working with Databricks and SQL Server
A DAY IN THE LIFE
- Lead 5+ person Data engineering team of direct reports, with a focus on fostering a highly engaged and innovative culture within the team.
- Mentor team members and establish best practices and processes, leveraging deep knowledge and background in agile / scrum and data engineering disciplines
- Conduct regular one on ones and performance reviews with direct reports, recurring team meetings, and regular check-ins with all team members to promote career development across the team.
- Attend regular scrum ceremonies, remove blockers, ensure the team is set up for success.
- Define growth strategy for software development team, conduct resource and capacity planning, recruit, interview, and participate in onboarding of new team members.
- Ensure timely and meaningful recognition of team member success and accomplishments.
- Promote and participate in team Agile Transformation to become excellent in scrum methodologies.
- Ensure Sprint commitments are managed and met
- Work with established and new 3rd party software development vendors as needed to augment team capacity, implement 3rd party solutions, and execute on incoming demand.
- Partner with peers in the Product Strategy, Product Delivery, Quality Assurance, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), Scrum, and Program Management organizations.
- Ensure all software and data is secure and well governed, working in partnership with Insight Global’s CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), Information Security, and Data Governance team.
- Be a champion of our culture and shared values while demonstrating Leadership is here to serve by setting the vision, inspiring everyone around you and taking care of our people.
THIS JOB IS FOR YOU IF
- You have a strong background working in and managing working in Agile / Scrum teams with a heavy emphasis on cross team collaboration
- You have a deep knowledge of Data Engineering Principles & Concepts, SQL, Data Structures, Azure, and Databricks solutions for data streaming and batch processes
- You understand how data can be used effectively and can anticipate ways to ensure Data Products are of high quality and easily useful to maximize their business value
- You have expert leadership and organizational skills with a passion for developing people
- You have fantastic interpersonal skills, and can engage and communicate across the entire organization at all levels
- You are a Data Engineering expert, seamless in your ability to both lead teams and transition between priorities and escalations, slice through the noise and get to what is important. You love a good plan, but can adapt, pivot and fearlessly dig in when necessary
- You have Courage to Take Action and act with a sense of urgency to deliver results
- You embody our Shared Values, and live them out every day
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Bachelors Degree in technical field
- Experience with SQL Server, Python, and Data Pipeline creation
- Minimum 5 years experience as Manager of a Data Engineering team
- Minimum 10 years experience in data engineering, BI, analytics, or Data Science
- Good communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work with business, Analytics, and IT stakeholders
- Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog Experience