Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AssistRx is a company focused on data-driven initiatives, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team of data engineers. This role involves designing and operating scalable data pipelines while managing team performance and ensuring the delivery of high-quality data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers, setting clear goals, expectations, and growth plans
- Conduct performance reviews, provide ongoing coaching, and support career development across the team
- Manage resourcing, capacity planning, and workload balancing across multiple projects and clients
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture
- Own end-to-end delivery of data engineering initiatives, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with business goals
- Plan, prioritize, and track team workstreams across client onboarding, migrations, and platform enhancements
- Remove blockers, manage risks and dependencies, and escalate issues appropriately to leadership
- Partner with project and program managers to set realistic timelines and commitments
- Provide technical direction for ETL/ELT development using Azure Data Factory, dbt, Snowflake, Salesforce, and related platforms
- Review and guide data architecture, models, warehouses, data lakes, and data vault designs for scalability and maintainability
- Ensure adoption of engineering best practices for integration, transformation, testing, and deployment
- Make build-versus-buy and tooling recommendations in partnership with the Director
- Ensure robust data quality frameworks, validation, and monitoring are implemented across pipelines
- Uphold data accuracy, integrity, security, and compliance, including PHI/PII considerations
- Establish standards and documentation for data flows, architecture, and transformations
- Drive resolution of performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency issues across the platform
- Partner with BI, analytics, product, and business teams to align data solutions with reporting and consumption needs
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritization of data initiatives across the organization
- Identify and implement improvements to engineering processes, automation, and operational efficiency
- Evaluate emerging tools, technologies, and frameworks to advance team capability
- Stay current with industry trends in data engineering, cloud platforms, and big data technologies
- Perform other related duties as assigned by leadership
- Directly manages a team of data engineers, including hiring, performance management, and professional development
- Provides technical and career mentorship and leads cross-functional engineering workstreams
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field required; advanced degree a plus
- 8–12+ years of experience in data engineering or data architecture, including 2+ years leading or managing engineers
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling, with strong architectural judgment
- Strong experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, dbt, Informatica, Talend)
- Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure, AWS)
- Proven track record delivering large-scale data warehouses, data lakes, and BI solutions
- Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop ecosystem)
- Demonstrated people leadership, project delivery, and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
- Experience working with healthcare data, including PHI/PII, preferred
Benefits
- Supportive, progressive, fast-paced environment
- Competitive pay structure
- Matching 401(k) with immediate vesting
- Medical, dental, vision, life, & short-term disability insurance
Company Overview
AssistRx, Inc provides healthcare information technology solutions to the Specialty Pharmaceutical distribution channel. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://assistrx.com.