Sr. Manager, Customer Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed data engineering team, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
• Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a focus on growing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of customer data integrations, ensuring they are reliable and secure at scale.
• Design and implement customer data integrations using IPaaS platforms like Workato, Boomi, or MuleSoft.
• Write and optimize advanced SQL (Snowflake) — including DDL, DML, CTEs, UDFs, and JSON transformations — to power analytics and automation.
• Build and maintain software for orchestration of customer data integrations utilizing web APIs and IPaaS connectors to seamlessly exchange data between CaptivateIQ and our customers.
• Ensure customer integrations are secure, testable, fault-tolerant, and designed for long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering and Product during discovery and scoping to advise on technical feasibility and data architecture approaches.
• Build relationships with product engineering to ensure scalability and management of our customer data integrations as customer usage grows.
• Translate customer business needs into the technical requirements and solution.

Requirements

• A strong (7+ years of experience) background in software and/or data engineering
• Proven experience working with data pipelines at scale and knowledge of data engineering technologies, such as Snowflake
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL proficiency
• High sense of ownership and a strong growth mindset; you are a collaborative, humble learner who can thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• You’ve previously operated in a customer facing role.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting SSO (SAML, OIDC) and SCIM provisioning across Okta, Entra (Azure AD), and OneLogin environments.
• Hands-on experience with setting up modern data stacks (ETL, data warehouses, DBT, reverse ETL)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
• Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
• Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
• Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
• Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
• Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.

Notice to Prospective Candidates:

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• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.