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Senior Manager, Data Platform
Vanta
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $213,000 - $251,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Airflow
About the role
- Roadmap and evolve the architecture of Vanta’s Snowflake‑based data warehouse, ensuring it scales to support real‑time analytics, zero‑trust principles, and FedRAMP‑capable compliance requirements
- Hire, train, and develop a world‑class team of data engineers and analytics engineers, providing hands-on mentorship and creating a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Establish the two respective functions as a collaborative set of teams
- Champion a security, compliance, and privacy‑first mindset across data ingestion, storage, transformation, access, and observability
- Deliver a “zero‑trust” data warehouse by implementing role‑based access controls, column‑level encryption, detailed audit logging, and automated policy enforcement
- Collaborate with AI, Strategic Finance, Revenue Operations, Data Science, Product Analytics, and Engineering to translate business objectives into a prioritized, measurable data platform roadmap
- Own buy‑versus‑build decisions for the data stack; evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts with procurement, and integrate best‑in‑class solutions where they accelerate our mission. Hold and measure your platform decisions to a high data platform ROI solution
- Be Vanta’s authoritative voice on dbt, change‑data‑capture (CDC), data orchestration patterns (Airflow/Dagster), and high‑performance database design
- Oversee the Architecture to Design and implement complex data models, metadata layers, reports, and dashboards that power internal decision‑making and customer‑facing analytics
- Develop front‑end applications and APIs that expose curated analytical data sets across the enterprise
- Develop Data Platform Application training, access patterns and enablement that internal customers consider “awesome”, and that you measure and hold your team to the highest standards delivering
- Contribute to data governance frameworks that guarantee data quality, availability, and discoverability
Requirements
- 12+ years working with data, including 5+ years architecting and operating Snowflake at scale, plus 2+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience
- Demonstrated expertise in data storage strategies, CDC pipelines, database & BI architecture, and modern data orchestration patterns
- Proven success building secure, privacy‑aware, compliant data platforms (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001; FedRAMP experience a major plus)
- 4+ years Experience managing, mentoring and developing data engineers and analytics engineers; comfortable managing a 5-6 person team with multiple functions (ingestion / bi) with plans to scale
- System‑oriented mindset— you automate, abstract, and write maintainable, tested code.
- Hands‑on proficiency with the modern data stack: Snowflake, dbt, Airflow/Dagster, Fivetran/Stitch, Looker/Mode/Sigma
- Strong communication skills; able to translate deep technical detail into crisp narratives for executives and cross‑functional partners
- Adept at making pragmatic buy/build decisions and guiding organizations through platform migrations
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
- Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours and location
- Open PTO policy
- 11 paid holidays in the US
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Snowflakedata storage strategieschange-data-capture (CDC)data orchestration patternsdatabase architectureBI architecturedata modelingAPI developmentdata governancedata quality
Soft skills
mentorshipteam managementcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingorganizational skillscontinuous learningpragmatic thinkingculture of excellence
Certifications
SOC 2HIPAAISO 27001FedRAMPBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering
