We are seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering team.
Managing a team of Data Engineers, you will own the end-to-end data lifecycle鈥攆rom high-volume ingestion to analytics transformation. You will set the technical vision, mentor the team, and build a scalable backbone for UW鈥檚 digital future.
A major initiative for the team this year is the Data Capabilities project. You will lead the migration of our customer domain data into a dimensionally modelled Enterprise Data Warehouse, executing on the system design led by the Data Architect and the Data Governance manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous delivery.
- Platform Strategy: Define the Data Engineering team vision, balancing immediate business needs with a long-term shift towards a self-service data mesh architecture.
- Infrastructure Ownership: Oversee the development of core data pipelines and platform tools, ensuring high performance for ingestion services.
- Pipeline & Warehousing: Ensure the implementation of robust ETL/ELT pipelines and scalable models (Kimball/Data Vault), maintaining overall warehouse health.
- Reliability & DevOps: Champion DevOps best practices, utilising Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to ensure platform resilience.
- Collaboration: Partner with Data Architects and Governance teams to embed security, compliance, and robust system design into the platform.