Data Engineering Manager

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems. We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Data Engineering Manager to join our Data Platform and Engineering team.

Requirements

• Manage a small team of data engineers focused on operational support, reliability, and platform engineering.
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and performance feedback to team members.
• Be hands-on in writing production-grade code to support data product development, collaborating directly with data engineers and architects.
• Design and implement scalable support processes for data pipelines and platforms.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and collaboration.
• Own and evolve incident response playbooks, ensuring rapid and effective resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define service levels and reduce downtime.
• Lead efforts to enhance data observability using tools like Monte Carlo, Bigeye, or similar.
• Define and track key metrics for data health, latency, and reliability.
• Drive adoption of proactive monitoring and alerting systems.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive support tasks and incident triage.
• Partner with platform and analytics teams to streamline data delivery and quality assurance.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge base development.
• Act as a point of contact for operational escalations and support inquiries.
• Communicate effectively with business and technical stakeholders regarding incidents and resolutions.
• Support onboarding and enablement of new data users and engineers.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• A meaningful career
• Commitment to growth
• Competitive compensation