Manager, Data Engineering

About Omnidian

Omnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries. Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Manager to drive our Data Engineering efforts. You will lead a team of Data Engineers, own, enhance and update Data Engineering processes and standards, understand company needs, and own and execute critical projects on our Data Engineering roadmap. This role sits within our Engineering department and will report directly to our Director of Data Management and Information Security.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership and Development (25%)
  • Lead, mentor and coach a team of six Data Engineering professionals, fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Establish and continuously improve Data Engineering architecture, processes and standards.
  • Ensure team has measurable SMART goals (OKRs); hold yourself and team accountable for performance against these goals.
• Project Management and Delivery (60%)
  • Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data engineering projects including project management, resource management and communication.
  • Mitigate risks and clear blockers.
  • Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives.
  • Own team performance against established SLAs, including visibility into SLA adherence over time.
  • Establish and provide visibility for metrics that will identify bottlenecks or other improvement opportunities.
• Roadmap, Strategy (15%)
  • Establish, communicate and maintain a rolling 5 Quarter roadmap for Data Engineering.
  • Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization.

Requirements

• Leadership Abilities: You possess strong leadership skills; you take satisfaction in supporting a team to achieve great things. You are able to keep a team focused on the most important things.
• Project Management Expertise: You are skilled at breaking down large, sometimes ambiguous projects into milestones, keeping the team on track, and providing visibility into progress to stakeholders.
• Data Engineering Expertise: You have hands-on experience designing, building and testing data pipelines. You are familiar with Data Engineering best practices, processes and standards. You have a working understanding of IoT data and are familiar with the challenges related to acquisition of time series data from multiple unstandardized sources.
• Data Architecture Experience: You are comfortable with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data.