Job Description

The Senior Manager, Data Engineering and Architecture is accountable for several critical, data-related initiatives at Lineage including bringing our key data assets centrally. With 400+ facilities in two dozen countries, the need to meticulously organize, validate, and expose critical business data to Lineage Logistics' stakeholders has never been more important.
At Lineage, the aim is not to build the largest technology team; instead, we are creating a small, highly skilled group that focuses on having right mix of talents, skills, and the capacity to learn in areas that define our core differentiation. We leverage cloud services, best-of-breed libraries and components, and external teams to augment our capabilities with sufficient capacity. This means that in addition to being a firsthand technologist and leader, you also need to be able to review and collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver.
As a company, Lineage builds state-of-the-art systems to make our employees productive, to meet and exceed our customers' expectations, to assist in our growth, and to create a technology platform that enables Lineage to achieve its vision of transforming the food supply chain. This is one of the most critical roles in that journey, and it will require someone who has a true passion for logistics data and associated technologies.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to an engineering team responsible for developing, maintaining, and architecting critical data pipelines, central data platforms, and the overall data engineering and reporting architecture.
• Foster team members' professional development through coaching and mentorship.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to design, build, and implement impactful data solutions that meet business needs.
• Participate in defining, implementing, and enhancing the end-to-end Centralized Data Assets architecture, toolsets, and processes.
• Make sound technical design and architectural decisions.
• Lead the design, end-to-end delivery, and execution of data engineering projects, ensuring seamless implementation.
• Oversee the development of a robust data architecture that enables smooth and effective integration of all systems and applications.
• Manage other personnel - both internal and external
• Consistently deliver high-quality software and processes in usable increments
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, application development teams, subject matter experts, and end users (among others) to solve complex problems and resolve disagreement with informed, rational, and practical solutions.
• Mentor and provide guidance - especially to other technical resources.
• Identify, plan, estimate, execute, and track software engineering work across a diverse team.
• Establish a team structure that can scale with future growth and implementing necessary processes to support it.
• Equipping the team with innovative data warehousing technologies to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Overseeing vendor resources in a streamlined and process-driven manner to maximize productivity.
• Grow and maintain a broad and deep knowledge of supply chain operations and associated technologies.
• Travel occasionally internationally to meet with team members and partners.

Education and Work Experience:

• University degree in computer science, software engineering, or IT management and/or

12 years of relevant work experience * 8+ years of working with data and reporting including architecture design, data modeling, tool selection, reporting architecture, query writing, ETL process and tools, and data quality assurance.

• 8+ years of managing data engineering efforts with an emphasis on centralized data platforms.
• Firsthand experience with Cloud Data warehouse Snowflake is highly preferable along with prior data pipeline development experience.
• Experience with Postgres, SQL Server and strong SQL is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS eco system is a plus.
• Exposure to reporting tools like Sigma, Power BI is a Plus.
• Previous exposure to and use of supply chain technologies including WMS, TMS, YMS, and related systems is strongly preferred.
• Prior experience in hands-on software development is preferred.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Possess a willingness to be coached and proactively seek feedback.
• Mentor and provide guidance - especially to other technical resources.
• Manage multiple assignments / projects simultaneously.
• Properly set priority and order for work
• Work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Ask for help and provide it to others.
• Understand your skills and your talents and apply them appropriately.
• Learn and apply modern technologies and business concepts.
• Maintain personal accountability for getting things done on time and with quality results.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical concepts to business leaders.
• Travel occasionally internationally to meet with team members and partners.

Why Lineage?
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers' requirements. Beyond that, you'll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We'll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.

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