Manager Data Engineering

Manager, Data Engineering📍 Chicago, IL (Hybrid)💰 Up to $165,000 Base + BonusWe're partnering with a fast-growing financial services company looking to hire a Manager, Data Engineering to lead the continued evolution of its modern data platform.This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical expertise with people leadership, helping shape the team's data engineering strategy while remaining close to architecture, platform design, and delivery. You'll lead a small team of engineers, partner with stakeholders across the business, and build the scalable data infrastructure that powers critical business decisions.If you're passionate about mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence, and building modern cloud data platforms, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact within a rapidly growing organization.What You'll DoLead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, fostering technical excellence and professional developmentDesign, build, and oversee scalable end-to-end data pipelines and ELT workflowsDefine data engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural principlesBuild and optimize data models that support analytics, reporting, and operational decision-makingOwn the reliability, scalability, and performance of the organization's data platformDrive improvements in data quality, testing, monitoring, and observabilityCollaborate with Product, Analytics, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact data solutionsPrioritize technical initiatives, manage delivery, and remove blockers for the engineering teamEvaluate and implement new technologies to improve platform performance and scalabilityRemain hands-on with architecture, code reviews, and complex technical challengesWhat We're Looking For7+ years of experience in Data EngineeringPrevious experience leading or mentoring Data EngineersExpert SQL skills, including performance optimization and complex data transformationsStrong Python development experienceCommercial experience with SnowflakeHands-on experience with dbtExperience building and orchestrating pipelines using Airflow or similar toolsExperience developing cloud-native data platforms, ideally within AWSStrong understanding of modern data architecture, ELT, and dimensional modelingExcellent communication skills with experience partnering across technical and business teamsNice to HaveExperience within Financial Services or FinTechExperience with Fivetran or similar ingestion toolsCI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code exposureExperience scaling data engineering teams or establishing engineering best practicesWhy Join?Lead a growing, high-impact data engineering teamInfluence technical strategy and architectureModern cloud technology stackHigh visibility across the businessStrong career progression opportunitiesCompetitive salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefitsIf you're an experienced Data Engineering leader looking for a role that blends technical leadership with hands-on engineering, I'd love to connect.📩 Apply directly or send me a message for a confidential conversation.#DataEngineering #DataEngineeringManager #Hiring #ChicagoJobs #Snowflake #Python #SQL #AWS #dbt #Airflow #Leadership #CloudData #TechCareers #FinTech