Data Engineering Manager

Location: Belle Plaine

Job Description:

Cambria is looking for a hands-on Data Engineering Manager to lead the engineering function and empowers decision-making with reliable, scalable, accessible data. In this role, you will serve as both a technical contributor and a people leader: setting the engineering strategy for the pod, hiring and developing the team that builds it, and partnering closely with data scientists, BI engineers, and the Analytics Product Owner to turn complex business questions into data products that ship.

You move easily between architecture conversations and code review, executive readouts and sprint plans. You set the technical bar for quality, scalability, and security. You take smart risks, you protect your team's focus, and you make sure they have what they need to do the best work of their careers.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the team. Actively recruit, hire, mentor, and grow data engineers at every level. Set clear goals. Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and inclusion. Create the conditions for people to do the best work of their careers.
• Drive engineering strategy. Design and oversee the data pipelines, warehouse models, and ELT processes that fuel GTM analytics. Collaborate with data architects on trade-offs - performance, cost, complexity, maintainability.
• Shape the stack. Partner with Analytics and Architecture leaders on critical decisions about Snowflake, AWS, dbt, ingestion tooling, and BI platforms. Set the technical bar for quality, scalability, observability, and security.
• Translate business needs into engineering plans. Work closely with Data Science, BI, Market Research, and the Analytics Product Owner to turn complex business questions into pipelines, reports, and data products that ship.
• Establish the standards. Define and incorporate best practices for data quality, security, privacy, and governance in partnership with architecture. Manage technical debt before it manages you.
• Run the cadence. Partner with the APM on roadmap and sprint planning. Deliver high-priority data products on time, with quality, in a fast-moving environment.
• Bridge engineering and business. Speak both languages fluently. Communicate progress, risks, and strategic direction to senior leadership with clarity and confidence. Cover ad-hoc analytical tasks and automate them away over time.

Qualifications & Skills

• Engineering depth. Deep proficiency in SQL and Python. Strong working knowledge of cloud data architecture, distributed systems, and modern ELT/ETL patterns.
• Modern stack fluency. Production experience with Snowflake (Medallion architecture a plus), dbt, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred). Familiarity with ingestion tools like Five Tran or Qlik and BI platforms like Sigma, DOMO, or Tableau.
• Big data background. Hands-on experience with distributed data processing at scale - Spark, Hive, Kafka, modern table formats like Apache Iceberg, file formats like Parquet, and dependency-driven job schedulers. You've worked at scale before, even if Cambria's stack is more managed.
• Data architecture & modeling. Strong instincts for data modeling, schema design, and task estimation. Comfortable with API specs, identifying the right calls, extracting the data, and shaping it into something analysts can actually use.
• Proven leadership. A track record of building, growing, and mentoring data engineering teams. You manage technical debt, set KPIs, run performance reviews, and develop the next layer of leaders below you.
• Business fluency. Comfortable translating between business strategy and engineering execution. You navigate complex cross-functional situations with diplomacy. You speak clearly to executives without dumbing it down.
• Bias for action. Calm under pressure. Excellent attention to detail. Able to deliver high-quality work in a dynamic environment, against tight deadlines and competing requests.
• The cultural fit. A passion for building inclusive engineering culture and cultivating psychological safety. An eagerness to learn. A sense of humor.

Minimum Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. Master's preferred. Relevant…