Technical Manager, Strategy Research Analytics
The Voleon Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $225,000 - $255,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
SparkSQL
About the role
- Lead a high-impact team responsible for maintaining and evolving Voleon’s core analytics pipelines and data models
- Ensure reliability while building toward a world-class analytics platform
- Translate the needs of researchers and data scientists into robust, scalable, and reproducible analytics systems
- Collaborate with leaders across Research, Engineering, ProdOps, and Data Infrastructure
- Define a clear roadmap for analytics enablement and drive operational excellence
- Empower data scientists to focus on high-value research analysis
- Drive team execution, clarify ownership boundaries, and ensure visibility and accountability
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 3+ years of proven experience managing geographically distributed software engineering teams
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering or data teams focused on analytics or data infrastructure
- Demonstrated success managing through ambiguity, influencing without direct authority, and leading complex cross-team initiatives
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of clearly articulating vision, progress, and impact
- Proven ability to attract, hire, mentor, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Product-focused mindset, with experience shaping product vision, defining roadmaps, and delivering high-impact platform solutions
- Strong background in modern data infrastructure and modeling (e.g., SQL, Presto, Spark, Dask, Polars)
- Strong understanding of query optimization and performance tuning in SQL and experience with columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet, ORC)
- Demonstrated experience designing normalized and denormalized data structures for analytical workloads
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision coverage
- life and AD&D insurance
- 20 days of paid time off
- 9 sick days
- 401(k) plan with a company match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLPrestoSparkDaskPolarsquery optimizationperformance tuningcolumnar storage formatsParquetORC
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsinfluencing without authorityleadershipmentoringoperational excellenceteam executionclarity in ownershipvisibilityaccountability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science