Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Horizon3.ai

. Lead the team that provides the internal data platform that powers analytics and operational decision-making across Horizon3 .

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $235,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSBigQueryCloudCyber SecurityKafkaKubernetesPythonSparkSQLUnity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the team that provides the internal data platform that powers analytics and operational decision-making across Horizon3
Drive and lead execution on a modernization of Horizon3’s data architecture.
Define data quality and timeliness standards. Drive data quality, observability and pipeline robustness efforts to provide reliable and performant access to data to consumers.
Act as a product owner to capture needs of product teams, BI teams, and other customers and manage the roadmap of data engineering initiatives.
Grow a team of data engineers, infrastructure engineers, and data analysts. Establish a culture of collaboration and engineering excellence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated expertise leading teams designing and operating cloud data warehouse in production (eg, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)
Hands-on experience with the modern data stack: dbt for transformation, a pipeline orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, or similar), and managed ingestion tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, etc.)
Experience implementing data quality frameworks and observability: defining pipeline SLAs, detecting and alerting on anomalies, and establishing tiered data sets with quality guarantees (e.g., medallion architecture)
Able to partner with and influence peer engineering teams - drive alignment on shared standards such as pipeline patterns, data contracts, and quality guarantees across teams that own their own data sources.
Experience building or significantly growing a small data engineering team — including hiring, onboarding, and establishing engineering norms.
Proven ability to define and instill engineering culture: code review standards, definition of done, incident response, documentation practices, and culture of ownership.
Drives high-impact architecture decisions rigorously — requires design documents, runs structured reviews, builds consensus, and ensures decisions are well-reasoned before commitment.
Demonstrated experience acting as product owner for a platform or infrastructure team: maintaining a roadmap, triaging inbound requests, managing internal customer expectations, and making prioritization tradeoff decisions against capacity.
Proficient in SQL. Able to read, write, and review data transforms and data quality checks in SQL.
Proficient in Python. Ability to review pipeline code and guide engineering decisions.
Competent in data analysis. Able to investigate anomalies, validate data quality issues, and find insight in data.
Familiarity with AWS data services (Redshift, Athena, S3/Glue)
Experience with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark)
Familiarity with Argo Workflows or Kubernetes-native job orchestration
Experience with high volume streaming data (Kafka, PubSub)
Experience supporting data science or ML workflows.
Exposure to cybersecurity, network telemetry, APM, or other high-volume operational SaaS data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
Flexible vacation policy
Generous parental leave
Equity package in the form of stock options

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud data warehouseRedshiftSnowflakeDatabricksBigQuerydbtAirflowFivetranSQLPython

Soft Skills

team leadershipcollaborationinfluenceengineering cultureproduct ownershiproadmap managementdecision makingcommunicationproblem solvingdata analysis