Data Platform Engineering Manager

Sacramento, California Information Technology – Infrastructure Engineering /Exempt /Hybrid Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies, Workers Compensation Division, is looking for a Data Platform Engineering Manager to  lead the team responsible for the organization's enterprise data platform and is accountable for its performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. This individual oversees the selection, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the technologies that store, process, and move data across the organization.

The position requires broad expertise across relational, No

SQL, and analytical data platforms, with responsibility for developing and strengthening these capabilities within the team. The Manager leads day-to-day platform operations, including 24x7 support and incident response, and ensures delivery through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git Ops practices aligned with the Autonomous Composable Development (ACD) model.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES TEAM LEADER SHIP AND DEVELOPMENT Directly supervises Database engineers day-to-day direction, workload prioritization, performance management, 1:1s, and reviews aligned to the IC level framework.

Accountable for developing the team’s depth across relational, No

SQL, and analytical platforms, and for raising automation, IaC, and Git Ops proficiency.

Accountable for closing the gap between defined standards and demonstrated team practice.

Manages on-call rotation scheduling and escalation coverage.

Surfaces risks, gaps, and disagreements in writing at the time they are identified rather than after work is underway.

Resolves cross-team blockers directly with peer leaders and escalates only what cannot be settled at that level.

DATA PLATFORM OWNERSHIP Owns the operational data store estate: OLTP and No

SQL across MS SQL,  Cosmos, and equivalents. Recommends the right store for a given workload rather than defaulting to a single engine.

Owns transformation and data movement: ADF, Airflow, and the replacement of the HVR and SSIS approaches currently in place.

Operates the analytical data platform — One Lake and the Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers — to the same standards as the relational estate.

Selects technology within each category, and is accountable for the reliability, performance, and cost of what is chosen.

Manages data platform cost, licensing, and capacity per organizational guidelines.

AUTOMATION AND DELIVERY Defines standards for Git Ops schema management, IaC provisioning, and lifecycle automation. Authors and reviews T-SQL, Power Shell, and IaC templates (Terraform, Azure Dev Ops) for database provisioning and schema deployment.

Accountable for moving the team’s work from manual execution to self-service — including database change management through Liquibase or equivalent tooling, and the automation of environment refreshes.

Responsible for the team’s participation in cross-team automation initiatives, including timely delivery of post-configuration requirements, provisioning inputs, and integration constraints to partner engineering teams.

Champions Claude and LLM tooling for schema documentation, data lineage, query optimization, and automation; mentors engineers on advanced usage.

DATABASE OPERATIONS, RESILIENCE AND PERFORMANCE Remains hands-on in the design, implementation, and administration of the data platform estate — Azure SQL, Managed Instance, SQL Server, and the relational, No

SQL, and analytical platforms adopted over time. Serves as the final technical escalation point for complex incidents.

Owns redundancy planning, high availability design, and failover execution across the estate, including Always On availability groups, geo-replication, and tested failover procedures. Validates HA/DR…