Manager, Data Engineering (Remote)

The Krazy Coupon Lady (KCL) is a female-founder-owned publisher on a mission to help shoppers beat MSRP, unapologetically maximize their money, and seize the deal. Our team of shopping experts curate and hand-test nearly a thousand deals per week, so there is always something new to discover each time you visit our website, app, and your inbox.With the growth KCL is experiencing, the Data Organization is in need of a Manager, Data Engineering to join and lead our Data Engineering team. You will be the trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, a lead and authority figure to employees, providing guidance and expertise.  You will be focused on piping impactful insights to the right people at the right time, supporting data driven decision makers, analytics, and data science initiatives. 

This is a full-time remote position with a Monday-Friday work week. In addition, this position will be expected to be on call 24/7 and be available for outage troubleshooting. KCL will currently consider applicants who reside in the following states: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania,  South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, or Wisconsin.

• Manage and prioritize the data engineering backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely delivery of high-impact data solutions.
• Lead delivery of data engineering projects, including planning, scoping, resource allocation, and execution to meet business goals.
• Ensure timely and efficient execution of data pipeline development, maintenance, and optimization, driving continuous improvement in performance and scalability.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (Analytics, Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing) to define data requirements, establish milestones, and deliver solutions on schedule.
• Monitor and report on project progress, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensuring alignment with the overall program roadmap.
• Establish and enforce program timelines, and resource allocation, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Drive risk management and issue resolution, identifying potential roadblocks early and proactively implementing corrective actions.
• Optimize and maintain cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) to ensure high availability, reliability, and cost efficiency for all data initiatives.
• Develop and enforce data engineering best practices, including data governance, security, and quality assurance, across all project phases.
• Conduct regular status meetings and reviews with stakeholders, ensuring transparency in progress and ensuring expectations are met.
• Oversee the integration of new data sources, managing both short-term implementation and long-term integration strategies.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, providing guidance, mentorship, and ensuring that team objectives align with broader business goals.
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation of engineering processes, project milestones, and system architecture for future reference and compliance.
• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies, proposing new solutions or improvements to enhance the efficiency and impact of data engineering projects.

• Data Engineering Background: You’ve spent at least 10 years in Software/Data Engineering Development and/or Team management roles with an emphasis on implementing DWH and ETL/ELT industry best practices. You understand data platform architecture concepts and know how to promote a project from inception to delivery.
• Technology Leader: You take pride in your ability to lead others in fulfilling their potential and building a team of professionals where each team member's unique contribution can be realized. You continuously learn and expand in your knowledge of your domain and provide innovative and cutting edge solutions.
• Self Driver: You are a self managed individual, you require little guidance, and take the initiative whenever possible. You respond well to changing requirements and always keep your eyes on the goal, providing your business stakeholders with the best access to impactful data.
• Problem Solver: Your skills in problem solving are superior. You like to take on what others see as impossible. You are not deterred by obstacles or blockers and continuously look for the way forward while maintaining a high quality performance.

• Use of Fingers: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

About KCL

With our roots in Boise, ID, we’ve grown into a remote company with employees located across the United States. We’re a team focused on hard work, humility, and transparency. We believe in the power of community and the magic of friendship that created KCL so, for us, everything we do is people-first.

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