Manager, Enterprise Data Engineering
Ann Arbor, MI - USA
Job Summary
You are a technical engineering leader first. You can architect an end-to-end streaming solution debug a complex Spark job in production and present a data strategy roadmap to VPs all in the same week. You dont just manage engineers; you make them better. You set the technical bar own critical data domains and serve as the go-to authority when the hardest problems land on the table.
You will design build and scale the data pipelines that power Dominos integrating batch and real-time data across Digital Commerce Marketing Supply Chain and Finance to deliver trusted high-quality data products that drive decisions at every level of the business.
Youll lead data engineering with a data-as-a-product mindset delivering data products end-to-end from ingestion and transformation to semantic modeling quality and serving. Each data product has clear consumers defined SLAs governed semantics and measurable business outcomes.
General Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Design and build scalable production-grade data solutions across batch and real-time workloads you set the technical bar for the team
- Design and evolve cloud-based data warehouse and lakehouse solutions with Databricks as the core platform
- Own the technical direction for data integration transformation and serving layers across your domain
- Drive streaming data solutions using Confluent Kafka for real-time use cases POS transactions digital order events customer activity and supply chain signals
- Lead data modeling schema design and optimization across SQL Server Databricks (Delta Lake) and NoSQL data stores
- Establish and enforce engineering standards: code quality peer reviews CI/CD automated testing documentation and observability
- Design build operate and continuously improve data assets that are reliable discoverable and ready for analytics and AI
- Build AIready data foundations curated datasets realtime pipelines featureready data and governed semantics that accelerate ML and GenAI use cases
- Partner with Data Science and AI teams to operationalize data pipelines that move models from experimentation to production
- Define data product contracts (schemas freshness quality semantics) that enable selfservice consumption across BI analytics and AI use cases
- Establish enterprisegrade semantics to ensure consistent definitions across Digital Commerce Marketing Supply Chain and Finance
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies staying hands-on and keeping the team at the cutting edge
Stakeholder Partnership
- Partner directly with Digital Commerce Marketing Supply Chain Finance and Enterprise Systems teams to understand business needs and translate them into scalable engineering solutions
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for your data domain owning requirements intake solution design and delivery
- Collaborate with Data Architecture Data Science Analytics and Platform teams to align on standards governance and shared data products
- Drive data activation and enablement making data accessible discoverable and actionable for downstream consumers
- Partner with business stakeholders to cocreate data products aligning engineering priorities to business outcomes rather than oneoff data requests
Team Leadership & Growth
- Lead mentor and grow a team of talented data engineers build a culture of ownership technical excellence and continuous learning
- Conduct design reviews architecture discussions and hands-on pairing sessions that elevate the entire teams craft
- Drive career development leveling frameworks and growth plans that help engineers reach their full potential
- Manage resource allocation across projects balancing modernization new feature delivery and operational support
- Recruit and retain top-tier engineering talent your technical credibility is the strongest hiring signal
Thought Leadership
- Shape the data engineering strategy and roadmap presenting architecture decisions migration plans and business impact to senior leadership
- Evangelize modern data engineering practices: lakehouse architecture DataOps streaming-first patterns and data mesh principles
- Drive innovation identify opportunities to leverage GenAI automation and advanced tooling to accelerate engineering velocity
- Champion a data product operating model moving the organization from pipeline delivery to product ownership reuse and scale
- Influence how teams define success: adoption trust and business impact not just pipeline completion
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums architecture review boards and vendor engagements
Tech Stack
- Cloud Data Platform: Databricks (Delta Lake Unity Catalog Workflows SQL Warehouses)
- Streaming: Confluent Kafka Kafka Connect Schema Registry
- Databases: SQL Server NoSQL (MongoDB / Cosmos DB / DynamoDB)
- ETL / Orchestration: Talend Databricks Workflows Azure Data Factory
- Languages: Python PySpark SQL
- DevOps: Git CI/CD (GitHub Actions / Jenkins) Infrastructure-as-Code
- BI & Analytics: Power BI Looker or equivalent
- Cloud: Azure or equivalent (ADLS Key Vault Networking AAD)
Qualifications :
- 8 years of hands-on data engineering experience; 3 years leading engineering teams
- Deep technical expertise with at least one major cloud data platform Databricks strongly preferred
- Production experience building and operating streaming data solutions (Confluent Kafka or equivalent)
- Strong proficiency in Python PySpark and SQL you can still architect and debug production pipelines
- Experience with SQL Server cloud data warehouses and NoSQL databases in enterprise environments
- Experience with Customer 360 platforms identity resolution and unified customer data solutions building the data engineering foundations that power a single trusted view of the customer
- Experience building data platforms that enable analytics ML and AI workloads even if you are not training models yourself
- Strong understanding of how data engineering semantics and data quality directly impact AI outcomes
- Proven ability to partner with business stakeholders and translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Track record of building growing and retaining high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent communication you can go deep in a design review and go broad in a leadership presentation
- BS/MS in Computer Science Data Engineering or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with MarTech stacks CDPs campaign analytics audience segmentation data flows
- Talend ETL development and cloud migration experience
- Data governance and compliance (SOX CCPA/GDPR)
- Databricks certifications (Data Engineer Professional Associate)
- Exposure to ML/AI data foundations: feature stores MLflow experiment tracking
- QSR retail or high-volume consumer-facing industry experience
- Experience driving Agile/Scrum delivery in matrixed organizations
Additional Information :
Benefits:
Paid Holidays and Vacation
Medical Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment
No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents
Childcare tuition discounts
No-cost fitness nutrition and wellness programs
Fertility benefits
Adoption assistance
401k matching contributions
15% off the purchase price of stock
Company bonus
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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