Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Data

WEX is a company focused on scaling its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Data Acquisition to lead a team responsible for acquiring and processing high-volume data. This role involves providing technical oversight, managing resources, and driving continuous improvement in data acquisition processes.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Management: Lead, mentor, and manage software engineers focused on data acquisition. Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive team culture. Conduct performance reviews, manage career development, and hire top engineering talent
• Strategy & Vision: Execute the technical roadmap and strategy for all data acquisition pipelines and systems. Ensure the infrastructure is scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective to handle ever-increasing data volumes and velocity
• Technical Oversight: Provide technical guidance and oversight on the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of critical data ingestion frameworks, APIs, and services. Ensure adherence to best practices in software engineering, data governance, and data quality
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, data science, data governance, and other engineering teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions that meet business requirements
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tools, and methodologies (e.g., CI/CD, automation, monitoring, alerting)
• Operational Excellence: Ensure high availability and performance of all data acquisition systems, leading incident response and root cause analysis for any major outages
• Budget & Resource Management: Manage budget, resources, and capacity planning for the data acquisition organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a management role overseeing software engineering or data acquisition teams
• Deep expertise in building and managing high-volume, real-time and batch data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar)
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience designing scalable, serverless, or containerized data ingestion architectures (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Strong knowledge of various data sources, integration patterns (APIs, web scraping, messaging queues), and ETL/ELT tools
• Expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, Scala, or Go
• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Data Warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and manage multiple distributed teams
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to define solutions for complex technical challenges
• Experience in leading virtual teams is highly desirable