Software Engineer Manager, Retail Media Data Lake (Remote)

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer Manager will lead the design, development, and delivery of OAM Data Lake platform enabling scalable, reliable, and high-performance data infrastructure to support business growth and innovation. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, proven leadership capabilities, and a strong understanding of modern data architectures. This leader will be responsible for building and mentoring a high-performing engineering team, collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving alignment with strategic business goals. By establishing a robust data platform, this role offers an opportunity to create significant impact in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Basic Qualifications: ? 2+ years of experience in the capacity of manager role leading high velocity data engineering teams. ? 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of successfully designing and implementing large-scale data solutions. ? Excellent communication, leadership, and team management skills are crucial for leading a team of data engineers. ? Ability to identify, analyze, and solve complex data-related problems. ? Good hands-on experience with Modern data architectures. ? Experience with various NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB for handling large datasets and unstructured data. ? Ability to design and implement scalable data models that meet business requirements. ? Experience with tools and techniques to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency. ? Eager and capable of quickly learning new technologies and adapting to evolving technological landscapes. ? Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented culture.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:
? Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
? Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
? Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
? Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
? Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
? Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
? Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
? Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
? Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:
? Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
? Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
? Provides application support for software running in production
? Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:
? Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
? Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
? Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
? Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
? Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
? Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
? Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:
? Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
? Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
? Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements: ? Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements: ? Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:
? Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications: ? Must be eighteen years of age or older. ? Must be legally permitted to work in the United States. ? Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java) ? Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications: ? 5-7+ years of relevant work experience ? Previous experience in retail media, digital marketing, or e-commerce retail is highly valued. ? Experience in data management, data discovery, data cataloging/search, and/or data self-service required ? Strong understanding of distributed systems, big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). ? Strong knowledge of API design and microservices architecture. ? Proficiency in cloud services for scalable data solutions, with a preference for experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). ? Strong background in designing and optimizing data architectures, with a thorough understanding of data warehousing and data modeling best practices. ? Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Luigi). ? Experience with real-time processing technologies like Apache Beam and Flink ? Expertise in SQL, Python, and other relevant programming languages. ? Skilled in developing, optimizing, and diagnosing ETL processes, including integration of diverse data sources and real-time data streaming, with a focus on cost efficiency. ? Experience with platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and other similar systems to enhance data handling and analytics capabilities.

Minimum Education:
? The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:
? No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:
? 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:
? No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:
? None

Preferred Leadership Experience:
? None

Certifications:
? None

Competencies:
? Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
? Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
? Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
? Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
? Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
? Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
? Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
? Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
? Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
? Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
? Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
? Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations