The Manager Engineering & Sr Data Architect will lead the Data and AI architecture and engineering function as a technical manager with direct accountability for team performance, staffing, talent development, technical direction, and delivery. This is a team leader role that supervises a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and architects. The role owns Microsoft Fabric architecture, enterprise data and semantic modeling, integration design, and governed AI enablement while building an engaged, capable, and accountable team.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
- 10+ years of deep enterprise data, analytics, engineering, or architecture experience with accountability for architecture decisions in production.
- 3+ years directly managing and supervising data engineers, analytics engineers, architects, or similar technical staff, including managing a team through change.
- Direct accountability for hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance reviews, coaching, career development, workload planning, succession planning, employee relations, and retention.
- Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, workspaces, security, and capacity governance).
- Expertise in enterprise data and semantic modeling: conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, and canonical models; data contracts; Power BI semantic models; lineage; RLS/OLS/CLS; and performance tuning.
- Strong SQL, Python, PySpark, Delta Lake, batch, CDC, streaming, API, DataOps, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and cost-management experience.
- Constructive, solution-oriented leadership and strong executive communication; regulated-industry experience (insurance, healthcare, or financial services) preferred.
People Leadership, Performance & Team Development- Clearly define and communicate team roles, expectations, and responsibilities.
- Provide coaching, guidance, and support to help employees achieve performance and development goals
- Deliver consistent, constructive, feedback to recognize achievements, address challenges, and reinforce desired behaviors.
- Conduct regular 1:1 meeting and ensure timely completion of performance review cycles, maintaining alignment and accountability.
- Hold staff accountable for compliance with organizational policies and standards.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and accountability by encouraging team members to pursue new challenges and opportunities.
- Model and reinforce organizational values, actively recognizing and celebrating behaviors that exemplify them.
Microsoft Fabric Architecture & Platform Delivery- Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric reference architecture across OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, workspaces, domains, and capacities.
- Lead the team delivering foundational Fabric patterns and priority platform components; stay hands-on for high-risk design, prototyping, review, and troubleshooting.
- Define medallion, batch, CDC, streaming, mirroring, shortcut, deployment, security, monitoring, and capacity-management patterns.
- Maintain current architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps, architecture decisions, and implementation guardrails.
Enterprise Data, Semantic Model & Integration Architecture- Own conceptual, logical, physical, canonical, dimensional, and enterprise semantic model standards across policy, claims, provider, patient safety, underwriting, actuarial, and finance domains.
- Establish Power BI semantic model standards for measures, calculation groups, naming, certified datasets, reuse, refresh, performance, lineage, ownership, and RLS/OLS/CLS.
- Define data contracts, model versioning, metadata, glossary, master/reference data, ontology, and knowledge-graph alignment.
- Design secure integrations across Fabric, Azure, operational systems, content platforms, and external providers using APIs, events, CDC, streaming, files, and batch patterns.
Engineering Excellence, Governance, Reliability & Cost- Establish Git-based delivery, pull-request review, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, release, rollback, observability, incident response, and operational-readiness standards.
- Define service objectives and telemetry for pipelines, capacities, semantic models, AI services, and critical data products; lead root-cause analysis and durable remediation without blame.
- Embed least privilege, secrets management, PHI/PII controls, sensitivity, retention, data quality, lineage, auditability, and responsible AI controls into delivery patterns.
- Forecast, monitor, explain, and optimize platform capacity, compute, storage, licensing, and vendor cost against business value.
Strategic Partnership, Communication & Change Leadership- Translate strategy and ambiguous business needs into decision-ready options, recommendations, diagrams, roadmaps, staffing plans, and executable work for technical and executive audiences.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Governance, Claims, Underwriting, Actuarial, Reporting, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and vendors to resolve tradeoffs and dependencies.
- Communicate risks early with context, impact, options, and a recommended action; represent decisions with composure, transparency, and sound judgment.
- Lead adoption of architecture standards and new ways of working through stakeholder engagement, education, measurement, and reinforcement.
Learning, Development, & Compliance- Maintain full compliance with all organizational policies, procedures, and established standards (e.g. accurately recording time worked, submitting PTO, mandatory corporate training).
- Keep technical knowledge and skills current to effectively support department priorities.
- Complete all performance and development activities - including the performance review process - in a timely manner.
- Fulfill all required training and development obligations to maintain essential skills and credentials.
- Complete all mandator compliance courses on time, meeting corporate training standards.
- Pursue additional learning opportunities that strengthen professional capabilities and contribute to team and organizational performance, with prior manager approval.
Other Duties as Assigned- Maintain full compliance with all organizational policies, procedures, and established standards (e.g. accurately recording time worked, submitting PTO, mandatory corporate training).
- Keep technical knowledge and skills current to effectively support department priorities.
- Complete all performance and development activities - including the performance review process - in a timely manner.
- Fulfill all required training and development obligations to maintain essential skills and credentials.
- Complete all mandator compliance courses on time, meeting corporate training standards.
- Pursue additional learning opportunities that strengthen professional capabilities and contribute to team and organizational performance, with prior manager approval.
Salary Range: $124,548 - $163,879. Compensation varies based on skills, knowledge, and education. We consider factors such as specialized skills, depth of knowledge in the field, and educational background to ensure fair and competitive pay. Salary may include additional geographic differential for employees working in higher-cost labor markets, including states such as New York and California.
BenefitsWe offer competitive compensation, an incentive bonus plan, outstanding career opportunities, an exceptional work environment, and an impressive benefits package, which starts with medical, family and bereavement leave; same-sex domestic partner benefits; short- and long-term disability programs; and an employee assistance program. There's more:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Health care tax-free spending accounts with a company match
- 401(k) and Roth IRA with company match, as well as catch-up plans for both
- Vacation days, sick days, and paid personal days each calendar year (with vacation increases based on length of service)
- Paid holidays each calendar year
- Life and travel insurance
- Tax-free commuter benefits
- In-person and online learning opportunities
- Cross-function career opportunities
- Business casual work environment
- Time off to volunteer
- Matching donations to qualifying nonprofit organizations
- Company-sponsored participation at non-profit events
