[Remote] Sr. Manager, Data Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Carrot is a global fertility and family care platform that provides intelligent clinical guidance and support. Carrot is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to lead and grow its Business Intelligence data engineering function, set technical strategy, and build scalable, secure, and reliable data infrastructure. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on development of data pipelines, warehouse models, governance practices, and analytics capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and roadmap for BI data engineering, aligning it with company strategy and analytics needs
- Design, build, and review scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and workflow orchestration systems, contributing hands-on production code in Python and SQL
- Architect and optimize data warehouse models that support advanced analytics, self-service BI, and operational reporting
- Establish and enforce standards for reliability, observability, testing, and performance across all data systems
- Drive improvements in data quality, lineage, and governance, including documentation and metadata practices
- Partner with backend product engineering teams to co-design production database schemas and event models with analytics and reporting in mind
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
- Own team-level planning and execution, including capacity planning, prioritization, and delivery across concurrent workstreams
- Translate ambiguous business and analytics needs into a clear, prioritized engineering roadmap with measurable outcomes
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Security, and Legal to align on priorities, ensure compliance, and remove cross-functional blockers
- Evaluate and influence build vs. buy decisions, vendor selection, and tool adoption across data platforms, ingestion, and transformation
Skills
- 8-10+ years of experience in data engineering or a closely related field, including 3-5+ years leading and managing data or software engineers
- 5+ years of advanced SQL and 5+ years of Python development experience in production environments, including unit and integration testing
- Strong, hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines in production
- Proficiency with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS) and modern ingestion, transformation, and orchestration tools (e.g., Fivetran, dbt, Prefect, Airflow)
- Strong understanding of relational modeling and warehouse design principles, plus version control (Git preferred) and modern CI/CD practices
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and standards while remaining capable of direct technical execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong knowledge of data governance, security best practices, and compliance protocols
- Direct experience with Carrot's current tech stack: Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Prefect, and AWS
- Experience with enterprise BI platforms and enabling self-service analytics
- Experience integrating batch and event-streaming or real-time ingestion systems
- Prior experience leading data engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment, ideally including managing other leads or senior-level ICs
- Healthcare industry experience, including familiarity with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and privacy regulations (HIPAA, GDPR)
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits
- Flexible Time Off and a culture that actively encourages employees to recharge.
- Comprehensive parental leave and family-forming benefits.
- Health and wellness benefits
- Retirement savings plans
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Family-forming assistance
- A mission-driven company focused on expanding access to fertility and family-forming care globally.
- A high-growth environment where leaders are empowered to shape strategy and drive impact.
- A collaborative, inclusive, and values-driven culture.
- The opportunity to work alongside passionate, thoughtful teammates committed to improving healthcare outcomes worldwide.
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