Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deckers Brands is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and is seeking a Senior Manager for Data & ML Engineering. This role leads the delivery and operational excellence of the company's modern data platform, focusing on building and maintaining scalable data pipelines for analytics and machine learning use cases.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of analytics-ready data models and transformation layers using dbt as the standard framework
- Establish and enforce dbt development standards, including model design, documentation, testing, CI/CD, and release practices
- Own delivery and operations of scalable ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines on AWS, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Partner with Cloud Engineering and Security to ensure AWS data solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements
- Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response practices, and runbooks for dbt and AWS workloads to improve operational stability
- Drive strong data quality practices including source definitions, freshness checks, automated tests, and data lineage expectations
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate needs into prioritized roadmaps and delivered data products
- Manage and mentor data engineers and analytics engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development
- Promote disciplined engineering practices across the team including code review standards, documentation, automation, and reusable frameworks
- Enable future machine learning use cases by ensuring curated datasets are ML-ready, including feature readiness and foundational requirements for model operationalization
- Evaluate and introduce platform improvements that strengthen scalability, maintainability, governance, and developer productivity
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; Master's degree preferred
- 8 to 12 years of experience building enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines
- 3 to 5+ years leading data engineering and/or analytics engineering teams in cloud-native environments
- Demonstrated hands-on experience using dbt as a primary transformation framework in production, including testing, documentation, CI/CD, and release practices
- Strong experience delivering data platforms on AWS (S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis, SageMaker as applicable)
- Deep understanding of modern data modeling and analytics engineering concepts, including dbt best practices
- Strong AWS data engineering expertise including scalability, reliability, and cost optimization
- Strong leadership and people-management skills with a focus on coaching and developing talent
- Ability to drive technical excellence while balancing speed, quality, and operational stability
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and decision-making skills
- Strong communication and influencing skills across technical and business stakeholders
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed, and global environment
- AWS certifications (Data, Machine Learning, or Solution Architecture) are a plus
- Experience supporting ML initiatives through strong data foundations, feature readiness, and platform enablement is preferred
Benefits
- Competitive Pay and Bonuses - We’ve created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they’re valued.
- Financial Planning and wellbeing - No matter what financial goals our employees have set, we want to help them get there. Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
- Time away from work - Sometimes we need time away to be with family, focus on our health or just simply recharge. Our plans support our employees’ needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
- Extras, discounts and perks - Being a valued member of the Deckers Brands team means more than just a paycheck. From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras
- Growth and Development - Deckers Brands was built on the idea of pursuing passion. That’s why we offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
- Health and Wellness - There’s nothing basic about our comprehensive health and wellness programs and offerings. While at work and at play, we aim to support a healthy lifestyle.
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