Data Engineering Manager

Quik Trip is looking for a Data Engineering Manager who is as comfortable contributing technical solutions as leading the team that builds them. This is a working manager role for a technically sharp, hands‑on leader who brings deep experience building and maintaining data pipelines, curating datasets, and delivering data visualization solutions that drive real business value. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable mentoring a multi‑disciplined engineering team and rolling up their sleeves to design, build, and troubleshoot data infrastructure.

Preferred candidates will have practical, working experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, and a proven track record of delivering end‑to‑end data solutions in a fast‑paced business environment. Candidates who thrive at the intersection of technical craft and team leadership and are energized by helping an organization become more data‑driven are encouraged to apply.

This position is responsible for managing a portfolio of data products for a defined portion of business users with the purpose of enabling Quik Trip to derive value from data. The product portfolio will primarily contain data pipelines, curated data sets, and data visualization applications, and this position is responsible for leading a multi‑disciplined delivery team who build, support, and maintain the data products.

Key objectives of the position include ensuring product development aligns with QT goals and objectives, team delivery of quality solutions that meet defined business need, and helping QT become more data driven through education of user communities and assisting in the identification of opportunities for value. Most importantly, the goal of this position is to develop their direct reports through providing of training opportunities, valuable experiences, and ongoing mentoring and feedback.

1. Effectively manage direct-report employees.

a. Develop employees and help each grow to full potential in his/her respective job

b. Ongoing effort to position the right person in the right job.

c. Praise, reprimand and counsel employees appropriately.

d. Establish rapport with all direct-report employees and be available for counseling (career, problems, questions, etc.).

e. Update and adhere to all Quik Trip policies and procedures concerning management practices and/or mandated regulations and laws.

f. Ensure direct-report employees adhere to all Quik Trip policies and procedures, operating practices and /or mandated regulations and laws.

g. Ensure that all management treatment of direct-report employees is fair and consistent

h. Promote personnel efficiency, production, and scheduling cost effectively.

i. Help develop and execute a tactical plan to support the Quik Trip strategic plan and key initiatives and ensure your employees understand it.

j. Maintain employee records according to company policy.

k. Ensure employees receive the training necessary to be successful in their position.

a. Responsible for the overall management of internal and external products within assigned product portfolio.

b. Partner with key stakeholders in assigned business units to develop a data strategy aligned with their business goals and objectives.

c. Build financial projections on Data Capabilities, Features, and Product Support and produce a product roadmap.

d. Continuously verify that data products are fulfilling their vision as measured by customer value and business outcomes and work through PTO to plan efforts to fill any identified gaps.

e. Ensure that technology roadmaps (including 3rd party solutions) are incorporated into the overall product development strategy.

f. Facilitate a rolling 12‑month plan for each data product’s lifecycle with Product Technical Owners, key stakeholders in assigned business units, and other key personnel.

g. Hold the Product Technology Owner and the product delivery teams accountable for maintaining product feature roadmaps and executing according to release planning commitments.

h. Accountable for product lifecycle management for all data products assigned to their portfolio as well as ongoing product success as defined…