Senior Data Engineering Manager

The role

This person will lead a team of data engineers and analysts. They will manage the data platform and services, overseeing the full data lifecycle from ingestion to consumption.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of data engineers and analysts through hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management
• Own the long-term roadmap and prioritization for the data platform
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to discover needs and translate requirements into technical deliverables
• Oversee the design and operation of data pipelines
• Operationalize the team by setting on-call expectations and triaging work
• Stay technically hands-on by reviewing code and prototyping solutions
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and champion the data team's work

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience building data solutions in a modern cloud environment
• At least 2 years managing technical teams
• Strong technical foundation in Python and SQL
• Familiarity with the modern data engineering stack including relational and non-relational data stores, ELT orchestration, transformation tooling, and data observability/catalog tooling
• Experience operating data platforms in AWS using infrastructure-as-code methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to manage production data workloads at scale
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks, grasp lightly/fine manipulation
• Occasionally stand/walk, twist/bend/stoop/squat, reach/work above shoulders, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds

Nice to have

• Trino experience
• CDK experience
• Familiarity with containerized workloads in Kubernetes
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. The company recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals from end-of-life batteries.