Contractors’ Warehouse —
Software Engineer Manager, Retail Media Data Lake (Remote)

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer Manager will lead the design, development, and delivery of OAM Data Lake platform enabling scalable, reliable, and high-performance data infrastructure to support business growth and innovation. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, proven leadership capabilities, and a strong understanding of modern data architectures. This leader will be responsible for building and mentoring a high-performing engineering team, collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving alignment with strategic business goals. By establishing a robust data platform, this role offers an opportunity to create significant impact in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in the capacity of manager role leading high velocity data engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of successfully designing and implementing large-scale data solutions.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and team management skills are crucial for leading a team of data engineers.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and solve complex data-related problems.
• Good hands-on experience with Modern data architectures.
• Experience with various NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB for handling large datasets and unstructured data.
• Ability to design and implement scalable data models that meet business requirements.
• Experience with tools and techniques to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Eager and capable of quickly learning new technologies and adapting to evolving technological landscapes.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented culture.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:

• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7+ years of relevant work experience
• Previous experience in retail media, digital marketing, or e-commerce retail is highly valued.
• Experience in data management, data discovery, data cataloging/search, and/or data self-service required
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong knowledge of API design and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in cloud services for scalable data solutions, with a preference for experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong background in designing and optimizing data architectures, with a thorough understanding of data warehousing and data modeling best practices.
• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Luigi).
• Experience with real-time processing technologies like Apache Beam and Flink
• Expertise in SQL, Python, and other relevant programming languages.
• Skilled in developing, optimizing, and diagnosing ETL processes, including integration of diverse data sources and real-time data streaming, with a focus on cost efficiency.
• Experience with platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and other similar systems to enhance data handling and analytics capabilities.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations