Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

The role

You will lead and grow a team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers. You will be responsible for data foundations, reliable pipelines, platform tooling, and enabling AI and ML capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead and grow both engineering disciplines including coaching and career growth.
• Complete the data and analytics migration including BigQuery and Looker rollout.
• Own discovery, priorities, and delivery by building stakeholder relationships.
• Expand self-service through reusable ingestion and transformation patterns.
• Own analytics engineering quality for dbt models and LookML.
• Advance data capabilities for agents and ML.
• Improve reliability and governance including testing and incident practices.
• Improve how the team works using AI-assisted development and automation.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including direct leadership of both data engineering and analytics engineering work.
• Strong technical judgment across data pipelines, cloud warehouses, SQL and data modeling, transformation frameworks, orchestration, and BI or semantic layers.
• Experience leading a significant data platform or analytics migration.
• Experience owning stakeholder discovery and roadmap prioritization without a dedicated product manager.
• A track record of building reusable capabilities and helping other teams adopt them.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and managing performance in a remote or asynchronous environment.
• Clear communication with technical and business audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with BigQuery, dbt Cloud, Looker/LookML, GCP, Python, Go, or infrastructure as code.
• Experience building data agents, governed natural-language analytics, semantic layers for AI, or data capabilities that support production ML systems.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development workflows with effective testing and review practices.
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry, including sensitive-data governance and access controls.

About the company

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. They partner with health plans, employers, and government organizations to help members restore their health through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care.