We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building and operating scalable, reliable, and high-quality data engineering pipelines. This role blends people leadership, technical stewardship, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure data is trusted, accessible, and delivered in support of analytics, AI, and business decision-making.

What you’ll do:

You will manage a team of data engineers, set technical direction, and partner closely with Product, Analytics, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders to deliver high-impact data solutions.

People & Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, and performance feedback
• Own hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance management for the team
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Balance delivery expectations with sustainable team practices

Technical & Delivery Ownership

• Own the design, development, and operation of data ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines (batch and streaming)
• Ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of data systems
• Drive best practices in data modeling, data quality, observability, and operational excellence
• Review and guide technical designs, architecture decisions, and code quality
• Partner with platform and infrastructure teams on tooling, security, and scalability

Execution & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Translate business and analytics requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Partner with Product, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams to deliver trusted datasets and metrics
• Own sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership

Governance & Standards

• Establish and enforce data engineering standards, patterns, and documentation
• Support data governance, data contracts, and schema management
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and data retention requirements

What you have:

• A graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related roles
• 3+ years leading engineers (hiring, coaching, delivery accountability).
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals (scaling, reliability, data correctness).
• Hands-on ability in Python and/or Java (can dive into code and unblock delivery).
• Experience with cloud data ecosystems (GCP - Preferred, AWS, or Azure)
• Proficiency with SQL and at least one programming language (Python, Java, or Scala)
• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Argo, etc.)
• Solid understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data reliability
• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
• Experience with modern data warehouses / lakehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Iceberg)
• Familiarity with analytics engineering tools (dbt, semantic layers)
• Exposure to data governance, observability, and data quality tooling
• Self-starter + ownership: drives ambiguous problems to durable solutions.
• Builds and grows teams: mentors, raises the bar, and develops talent.

Where you’ll live:

• While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote 

Working at PrizePicks:

The typical salary range for this position is $150,000 to $220,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. 

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

Date Posted:  2/4/2026