Senior Manager Data Infrastructure and Operations
Senior Manager Data Infrastructure and Operations
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG) our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then our history of innovation and gotomarket acceleration has driven industryleading growth. In fact were the largest and fastestgrowing automotive marketplace and weve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving and we are too moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing purchase and delivery of a new one. Today tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus each month and 30000 dealerships use our products. But theyre not the only ones who love CarGurusour employees do too. We have a peoplefirst culture that fosters kindness collaboration and innovation and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trilliondollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role overview
The Data Engineering team at CarGurus is looking for a Sr Manager Data Infrastructure and Operations to enable datadriven decisions across the company. You will be responsible for delivering scalable and highly performant data models that power reporting solutions for stakeholders in Product Management Marketing Finance and other key areas of the business. We are looking for a candidate who can work collaboratively with our partners and customers who can also actively contribute to our corporate data strategy as we continue to grow and evolve our core business.
What youll do
- Lead mentor and develop a highperforming data engineering infrastructure and operations team fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
- Act as the technical leader for our data platform overseeing architectural decisions promoting best practices and ensuring data integrity scalability and security in conjunction with our Enterprise Data Architect.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to align the data platforms capabilities with business objectives and identify impactful datadriven opportunities.
- Work with Technical Product Manager on the planning and of data infrastructure initiatives including resource allocation and timeline management to support strategic product goals.
- Conduct technical explorations and evaluations of new tools technologies and methodologies to keep our data platform innovative and adaptable.
- Manage scalable ELT processes within our data ecosystem optimizing data pipelines to ensure seamless data integration and accessibility.
- Enable and empower self service data ingestion.
- Encourage crossfunctional collaboration with engineering and business teams fostering partnerships that enhance data accessibility discovery and insights across the organization.
What youll bring
- You are an experienced leader with a track record of managing and developing highperforming teams. You excel at coaching mentoring and creating growth opportunities for your team members helping them achieve their professional goals.
- You have a deep understanding of data analytics principles and experience overseeing complex data landscapes guiding technical direction and maintaining high standards for data quality and reliability.
- You possess strong communication and collaboration skills allowing you to work effectively with crossfunctional teams including Product Analytics and other Engineering leaders to drive alignment and achieve business goals.
- Youve led distributed data teams across different geographies.
- You are skilled at balancing technical rigor with business needs translating complex data requirements into actionable initiatives that are scalable secure and strategically aligned with company objectives.
- You are comfortable engaging in technical explorations and resource allocation to ensure initiatives are both impactful and feasible.
- 8 years of experience in product/business analytics data engineering analytics engineering or related fields.
- 3 years of handson people management experience.
- You bring extensive experience in data warehousing ELT processes and are proficient in the Snowflake ecosystem.
- Familiarity with Looker Fivetran and DBT.
- Familiarity with real time event capture logging and ingestion.
- Experience working with a cloud data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake Databricks Google BigQuery) and a modern business intelligence platform (e.g. Tableau Looker Sigma)
- Expert level SQL proficiency and deep familiarity with dimensional modeling best practices
- An ability to build a multisprint plan for a complex data modeling project from loosely defined business requirements
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus curiosity and passion with bestinclass benefits and compensation including equity for all employees both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage worklife balance and individual wellbeing. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch a new car discount meditation and fitness apps commuting cost coverage and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potentialstarting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status gender identity or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills experiences and unique perspectives. Thats why we hope youll apply even if you dont check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LIHybrid
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
