Manager, Data Engineering - Hybrid in Jersey City, Hartford, or Raleigh

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

Job Summary

The Manager of Data Engineering (internally known as Mgr of Software Engineering) provides leadership in aligning information systems development with business objectives for assigned business applications and/or technologies.  The incumbent provides overall direction and guidance to engineers/developers/Data Analysts/testers/DevOps and contract labor teams.  She/he drives data/software development within the team to ensure execution of project work plans. Helps coordinate department priorities and ensures data/software development objectives are successfully met.

This is a Hybrid role (twice a week) in our Jersey City, NJ, Raleigh, NC, or Hartford, CT offices.

Responsibilities

Drive and facilitate Scrum activities with the teams at the sprint level

• Sprint planning
• Backlog refinement/grooming
• Daily standup meeting – act as a Scrum master, run the meeting, identify and remove impediments, drive the team toward the sprint goal completion
• Retrospectives, action items, continuous improvement at team level
• Scrum metrics (velocity/productivity/quality) at team level

Drive and enforce the Engineering process across the teams

• Branch/merge activities
• Environment maintenance, code deployments and coordination across teams/Proxy APMs, prod data refresh
• Ensure the engineering cycle correctness and completion – code reviews, alignment to the solution design, test case review, test evidence, unit test coverage, scope and timing of regression testing, end to end integration testing, etc.
• Investigate bugs, do root cause  analysis, identify improvement opportunities with teams and individuals

Support

• Collaborate with the Support BSA, be aware of the new incidents related to the team’s functional areas, assist with triage, ensure that the team is available for troubleshooting

Release management

• Create and maintain CMRs, obtain approvals, submit to CAB
• Manage releases and ensure correctness of releases across Jira and release branches in GitHub
• Facilitate deployment huddles, communicate with the domain leadership team, report on deployment issues/successful completion

Manage teams and individuals

• Build the team spirit, encourage communication, continuously coach team members on collaboration and common goals
• Track team and individual velocity and productivity, attendance and availability
• Have 1:1s, provide feedback, coach, identify plans for professional development
• Submit quarterly and year end performance assessment for FTEs
• Participate in interviews, onboard contractors and FTEs, train, ensure equipment and license timely availability

Experience

• Minimum of 7+ years’ of experience in IT

• 1-2 years of Engineering Manager / Engineering Lead experience managing cross-functional Agile teams in a medium to large corporate environment

• Agile Experience: Proven experience in a Scrum environment, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and tracking Agile metrics (velocity, burndown charts, etc.); familiarity with SAFe or other scalable frameworks is a plus.

• Team Management: Experience managing 5+ individuals and leading 1-2 teams, including non-direct reports, with a total of 7 years in IT (5 years as an engineer and 2 years in a managerial role).

• Technical Skills: Strong technical background with proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, .NET, or Python - Python preferred) and a deep understanding of the engineering cycle, including design, coding, code review, branching/merging, and deployment processes.

• Architectural Knowledge: Must understand distributed service-oriented architecture, microservices, and various integration types (RESTful APIs, event-driven systems) with a passion for quality assurance in both manual and automated testing.

• Demonstrated experience working in an environment that requires SOX, SOC-2, NYDFS, and other regulations compliance.

Education

• Bachelors’ degree in Management of Information Systems, or related field required – masters’ degree preferred

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For individuals assigned or hired to work in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Jersey City, NJ; New York State; and/or Washington State, the base salary range is listed below. This range is as of the time of posting. Position is incentive eligible.

$145,000 - $190,000/year

• Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs.  The above range may be modified in the future

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