About the role
As the Sr. Manager of Data Engineering, you will lead a team of data engineers in building scalable, secure, and high-performance data pipelines and infrastructure. You'll partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define and execute a data engineering roadmap that supports DexCare's internal analytics and external product capabilities. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution in a highly regulated healthcare environment.
Responsibilities:
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of data engineers.
- Define and execute the data engineering roadmap aligned with DexCare's strategic goals.
- Architect and oversee scalable data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver cross-functional data solutions.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data ingestion, transformation, storage, and delivery.
- Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST standards.
- Manage relationships with third-party data vendors and integration partners.
- Drive adoption of modern data engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability.
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Proven experience designing and managing large-scale data pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
- Expertise in Spark, Flink, dbt, and orchestration tools like Airflow or Prefect.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Databricks, and data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Familiarity with visualisation tools (Tableau, Power BI, D3).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and production-grade software systems.
- Strong architectural skills and ability to resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience managing real-time data pipelines with low-latency SLAs.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks and ML model deployment in cloud environments.
- Exposure to deep learning, reinforcement learning, or NLP in production settings.
- Experience in healthcare data environments and regulatory compliance.