Manager, Data Engineering & Automation
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
This role sits within Business Process Operations and reports into Finance Technology leadership partnering closely with the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) organization Finance partners and adjacent data and platform teams.
You will lead a team that builds automated data-driven and intelligent solutions that power critical Finance processes. Your work directly enables confident decision-making operational rigor and scalable execution across Finance!
You are a hands-on people leader who manages and grows data engineers responsible for ETL robotic process automation AI and large language model solutions analytics engineering and internal applications. You ensure teams deliver production-grade solutions with consistency quality and clear ownership.
You are a player-coach with the technical depth to challenge designs and architectures and the leadership focus to set direction develop talent and own outcomes. Success is measured by adoption reliability and real business impact.
Key Responsibilities
People Leadership
Lead coach and develop engineers across data engineering automation and application development.
Set clear expectations for ownership engineering quality and operational rigor.
Grow engineers who can independently deliver durable workflows services and automations.
Foster a culture of accountability learning and continuous improvement.
Delivery & Team Effectiveness
Ensure teams are effective within scrum frameworks focusing on flow predictability and delivery quality.
Partner with Scrum Masters to support planning reviews and retrospectives.
Remove blockers across people process and technology.
Drive delivery of data automation and intelligence solutions for the CAO organization and Finance partners.
Technical & Business Partnership
Serve as a technical leader for CAO and Finance partners validating and constructively challenging requirements.
Translate business intent into sound technical designs.
Ensure solutions are trusted adopted and embedded into operational workflows.
Balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability and maintainability.
Operational Ownership
Ensure acceptance criteria testing strategies and release readiness are met.
Own post-delivery stability issue remediation and continuous improvement.
Promote reuse standardization and practices that protect production environments.
Qualifications
812 years of experience in data engineering automation analytics engineering or software development including 35 years leading people.
Technical fluency across modern data and automation stacks including SQL Databricks Snowflake APIs ETL/ELT RPA AI/LLM technologies and internal applications.
Experience leading teams delivering production-grade pipelines automations and services.
Ability to review and challenge technical designs without needing to build everything personally.
Proven success partnering with Finance and executive team members.
Strong judgment clear communication and the ability to influence without authority.
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Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $$226000 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.In California the pay range for this position is $156100 - $226000
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California:
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Colorado:
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Required Experience:
Manager