Federato

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Federato

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in North America

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $255,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Manage a team of Data Engineers and Data Analytics Engineers owning our data infrastructure, including our medallion layers, data pipelines, and collaborating closely with MLEs on LLM Operations and agentic products.
  • Navigate ambiguity, driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development in cross-functional teams
  • Partner with function leads and senior leadership to align growth paths, performance expectations, and strategic goals with technical excellence standards.
  • Translate the Data Engineering vision into clear objectives, priorities, and milestones, ensuring effective project scoping, resourcing, and delivery.
  • Define and refine agile workflows tailored to data engineering, managing key rituals such as design sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
  • Serve as the primary delivery interface across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, ensuring alignment, transparent communication, and continuous improvement of team operations.
  • Drive hiring excellence by attracting, developing, and scaling a high-performing team aligned with business needs.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data science, data engineering, or machine learning–related roles.
  • 4+ years in a people management or delivery management role (directly leading technical contributors).
  • Proven experience managing cross-functional ML technical teams and driving delivery across multiple workstreams.
  • Strong understanding of data science lifecycle (from ideation and experimentation to deployment and maintenance).
  • Practical experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and delivery facilitation.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to balance technical depth with delivery discipline, ensuring outcomes, not just output.
  • Experience with LLM Ops, agentic framework, data governance, and productionization best practices.
Benefits
  • stock options
  • benefits and additional perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata analyticsdata pipelinesagile methodologiesLLM operationsdata governanceproductionization best practicesmachine learningdata science lifecycleiterative development
Soft Skills
communicationorganizational skillsstakeholder managementteam managementinnovationdelivery disciplinecross-functional collaborationproject scopingperformance managementcontinuous improvement