Sr. Manager, Master Data Management

Senior Technology Manager at Car Max helps bring disruptive innovation to life. They foster a solution driven mindset for their teams and partner with stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that deliver Car Max's strategic mission and plans. This Senior Manager grows people, creates teams that solve problems for our Associates and customers and communicates priorities to stakeholders. The empowered teams of engineers they lead follow the Agile framework and leverage best in class technology to solve complex business problems.

With these teams of inspired associates, if you have a good idea, this is the place to be.

The Senior Manager of Technology for Master Data Management is a key leader in providing reliable and scalable data management capabilities across the enterprise. The Senior Manager will be responsible for the talent selection and career development of a team of passionate software and data engineers, who closely partner with source data systems to centralize, enrich, and provide additional quality controls of the data that is critical for operational systems that helps build a customer 360 solution.

The ideal candidate will have a passion and understanding of Master Data Management and will have the substantial experience in software engineering, data engineering, and cloud engineering practices that are necessary to ensure the data is ready to support mission‑critical capabilities that drive Car Max’s iconic customer experience.

If you are interested in leading a high performing Technology team that drives building iconic customer experiences by leveraging data, your career search ends now!

Well curated and trusted data is what powers customer experiences  we enable more and more digital experiences for our customers, we need to ensure the data that drives those experiences is comprehensive, accurate, and available. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Technology to lead the Master Data Management team at Car Max!

Work Location:

Richmond, VA Technology Innovation Center – Hybrid work arrangement.

• Prioritize objectives and provide a holistic approach to solution recommendations that includes ROI, time to market, scalability as well as alternative recommendations.
• Deliver on commitments by being results focused while efficiently leveraging team talent.
• Think strategically – identify goals for the team while working to remove impediments.
• Evaluates root cause to multi-layer problems and identifies impacts beyond the immediate team/department. Breaks down complex plan into digestible and manageable action plans.

• Persuasive and influential communicator – able to explain complex or intangible concepts to stakeholders at all levels
• Communicate the vision to executive management while also providing guidance for the team to support the strategic direction.
• Leverages a balanced network across various levels to influence.
• Partner with business stakeholders, peer groups, the IT management team, and key associates to get buy-in on strategic efforts.

• Lead and empower a team of Engineers with varying levels of experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to connect the daily work to the organizational vision and inspires the team to contribute by sharing the “why”.
• Attract, recruit, retain and coach a strong team of skilled and engaged associates.
• Create clear role expectations and develop associates to reach their full potential – understand their goals and needs, partner in their development, provide advice, feedback, training and advocacy.
• Drive associate engagement while leading through other leaders where necessary.

• Integration patterns including REST APIs, Eventing, Bulk Uploads
• Dev Ops Practices and Culture
• Dual-Track Agile
• While this role is not “hands on keyboard,” we challenge our Sr. Managers to remain curious of innovative technology while also broadening their knowledge of Car Max functional areas.

• Passionate about information technology, data management, and data pipelines.
• Persuasive communicator – able to explain complex…