Join Tire Rack as a Data Engineering Manager onsite in South Bend, Indiana, where you’ll lead the team behind the enterprise data platform. This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data solutions using Databricks and AWS, while shaping how data pipelines, governance, and modernization initiatives move forward across the organization.
What you’ll do
- Lead and grow a Data Engineering team spanning entry-level through Senior, including mentorship, performance management, career development, succession planning, hiring, and workforce planning.
- Build a team culture centered on ownership, collaboration, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the architecture and delivery of data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
- Guide the evolution of the Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture.
- Ensure scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, and VPC.
- Establish strong CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, including Terraform.
- Drive data governance, security, compliance, data quality, monitoring, and reliability initiatives.
- Set SLAs and operational standards for critical data platforms and pipelines.
- Lead performance optimization and cloud cost-management strategies.
- Own incident management and root-cause analysis to improve platform reliability over time.
- Translate business needs into scalable, sustainable technical solutions.
- Partner with BI, Analytics, Data Science, Software Development, and other IT teams.
- Help define the enterprise data roadmap and lead data-platform modernization efforts.
- Evaluate emerging Databricks and AWS capabilities and identify opportunities for adoption.
What you bring
- 8+ years of progressive professional data engineering experience.
- 3+ years of leadership experience at the Supervisor, Assistant Manager, or comparable level.
- Deep knowledge of Databricks, including Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
- Strong experience designing and supporting solutions on AWS, including storage, identity and access management, networking, and compute optimization.
- Experience leading cloud data-platform modernization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, governance, security, quality, reliability, and cloud cost optimization.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and develop employees across multiple career levels.
- Ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and strategic planning skills.
Location and schedule
- Location: 7015 Vorden Pkwy, South Bend, Indiana (onsite)
- Work schedule: Normal work days are Monday through Friday. Occasional weekend work may be necessary based on business or operational needs.
- Job type: Full Time
- Category: Information Technology
- Salary: Dependent on Experience
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Technologies
Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, Unity Catalog, AWS, S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, VPC, Terraform, CI/CD
