Manager, Data Engineering & Analytics
About the Role
Team Leadership & Agile Delivery
Manage and mentor
Own the team’s Jira board
Build a culture
Data Architecture, Engineering & Business Automation
Architect and maintain
Manage and optimize
Build and monitor
Design and run proof-of-concepts
Platform Administration & Governance
Administer Tableau,
Establish and champion
Ensure data integrity, reliability, and security
Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement
Partner directly
Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Maintain SOPs and data dictionaries
Required
- 5+ years in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Enterprise Data Solutions.
- 2+ years of formal people management, or demonstrated experience leading engineering squads, sprint planning, and managing backlogs in Jira.
- Production-level experience designing, optimizing, and managing a cloud data warehouse (Google BigQuery or Snowflake preferred).
- Advanced dbt experience - architecting and deploying projects using macros, tests, incremental models, and documentation.
- Hands-on experience building integrations using an enterprise iPaaS (e.g., SnapLogic, Workato, Fivetran, Boomi) and third-party REST APIs.
- Hands-on experience administering a modern BI platform (Tableau user management, data sources, and site administration preferred).
- Proven ability to communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical business partners and document complex, end-to-end data workflows.
Preferred
- Experience with Python or another scripting language for data pipelines and automation.
- Certifications such as dbt Certified Developer, GCP Professional Data Engineer, or Tableau Certified Administrator.
- Background in data governance and security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR) and data quality monitoring.
- Experience integrating AI/LLM tools into data workflows - e.g., connecting platforms via Model Context Protocol (MCP), or building with Claude/Gemini APIs for automation, documentation, or analytics use cases.
What You’ll Bring
- A strong sense of ownership across both the technical roadmap and the people delivering it.
- Comfort operating at the intersection of platform architecture, integration engineering, and BI administration.
- The judgment to know when to be hands-on and when to delegate, coach, and let the team lead.
- A collaborative, documentation-first mindset that scales knowledge beyond any one person.
Why Join Us
First 30 Days: Team Integration & Operational Takeover
During your first month, you will focus on integrating with the team, building relationships, and establishing an operational rhythm.
- People Leadership: Take ownership of conducting regular 1:1 meetings with your direct reports and begin leading the team's twice-weekly stand-up sessions.
- Operational Management: Assume responsibility for sprint planning directly from the work backlog and map out existing team workflows.
- Technical Familiarization: Begin a deep dive into learning the team's current technology and tool stack.
First 60 Days: Stakeholder Engagement & Tool Fluency
By the second month, you will expand your scope to own external alignment and solidify your technical foundation.
- Stakeholder Management: Take ownership of leading stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering for incoming projects.
- Technical Proficiency: Achieve a strong, practical working knowledge of the team's entire tool stack to effectively guide technical execution.
First 90 Days: Strategic Contribution
By the end of your first quarter, you will transition from day-to-day execution to driving long-term impact.
- Strategic Roadmap: Move beyond daily operations to contribute directly to the team's strategic direction and process improvements.
- End-to-End Ownership: Fully own the stakeholder relationship and project lifecycle from initial intake to final delivery.
Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.
As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint's differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD): $104,500 - $176,174.00 Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee's home location.
Benefits Overview
- Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
- Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
- Sick leave
- Parental support: Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
- Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact applicationassistance@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.
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