Manager, IT - Data Engineering

Builders FirstSource is America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. The Manager, IT - Data Engineering role involves overseeing data engineering activities, managing a team of data engineers, and ensuring business continuity through effective data operations and cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Leads small group of Data Engineers, follows defined operating model and framework to guide team’s processes
• Defines scope for project and program opportunities and creates project plans, including resource needs and timelines
• Accountable for delivery and execution of defined deliverables
• Partners with senior team members on day-to-day operations including staffing and tracking project status; course corrects for shifting priorities
• Leverages expertise to solve a range of strategic business problems through dynamic and complex analysis
• Ensures data quality through proactive monitoring and review of security policies, governance, and data sovereignty
• Manages the development, improvement and scaling of appropriate data architecture and pipelines to store, analyze and process high volume data sets
• Collaborates with data scientist(s) to resolve business problems and recommend optimal data sources, methodologies, and analytic tools
• Oversees writing of functional clean code and performs unit testing
• Manages team in design of reporting and visualization tools for communicating data insights to organization/clients
• Influences, persuades, and negotiates with mid to senior level management for successful implementation of data initiatives, prioritization, and resources allocation

Requirements:

• Hands on expertise in Data systems (Data Lake, ODS, Data Marts, MDM) and attendant technology stack, involving RDBMS systems (SQL Server), ETL tools (SSIS), reporting tools (Power BI), File shares
• Hands on experience with developing and managing cloud-based data platforms, on Azure leveraging key technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps CICD, Terraform
• Hands on experience working with Azure DevOps and Jira boards and running agile standups and Kanban boards
• Deep experience overseeing SDLC and release management processes and good documentation practices
• People management skills like mentorship, guidance, performance management, upskilling, conflict resolution, delegation of tasks and overseeing the progress to completion. Being able to select talent and conduct interviews to find right fit for the role
• Experience organizing effective ETL night support function for business continuity. Acting as escalation point for after business hours and weekend emergencies
• Ability to cultivate and effectively manage relationships with external and internal teams, downstream and upstream from Data Engineering practice
• Great written and oral communication skills. Be able to create technical and business collateral like power points and architecture diagrams
• Project management skills for coming up with accurate and realistic timelines and level of effort for effective resource utilization for projects, enhancements, and defect resolutions
• Familiarity with ERP systems and underlying data topics spanning Customer, Products, Sales and Invoicing, Orders, Employee, SalesRep etc
• Ability to act as a stand in Techlead and provide solutioning and architectural guidance
• Relevant certifications on Azure and/or Databricks ecosystem
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
• 7+ years relevant work experience
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with SAP Basis is highly desirable
• Any exposure to Terraform is highly desirable
• Azure and Databricks Certifications are highly desirable