Software Engineering Manager, Data - #1704345

Job Type

Full-time

Description

aPriori offers an industry-leading Manufacturing Insights platform that empowers the world’s largest manufacturers to identify, reduce, and manage manufacturing costs, carbon emissions, and feasibility challenges. By leveraging patented simulation technology, the platform generates real-time data insights, unlocking value and enabling data-driven decision-making to achieve cost savings, boost efficiency, and speed up time to market.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join aPriori’s team in Belfast to manage our Data Platform Team in delivering the next-generation data platform and insight tools.

In this role, you will collaborate with aPriori product and domain experts to build business intelligence platform tools and interfaces, leveraging your expertise to help customers extract meaningful insights from their data. Utilising dbt, BigQuery, Airflow, Cloud Composer and Looker within a multi-cloud (AWS + GCP) architecture, you will be responsible for driving cross-domain collaboration through a rapidly scalable data platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and proven experience managing software engineering teams with a solid understanding of data quality, and experience with one or more modern cloud data platforms.

Location: Belfast (Hybrid- 2-3 days’ per week in office)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the data engineering team through design, development and delivery of a modern data mesh platform
• Evaluate the technical decisions of the team to improve data processing, storage, and analytics capabilities
• Foster a high-performing team culture through strong leadership, team collaboration, and talent development
• Manage, mentor and evaluate engineers' performance to drive efficiency, professional growth and team success
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to translate organisational goals into technical direction for the data engineering team
• Effectively plan and oversee data platform projects, managing team workload to ensure consistent delivery and achievement of targets
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership, ensuring transparency and realistic expectation management
• Contribute to the organisation’s technical strategy ensuring that the team’s work aligns with the company’s goals
  
  

Requirements

• Proven ability to lead software engineering teams
• Proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as Python, Java or Scala
• Expertise leading teams and delivering in cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS)
• Familiarity with data modelling, warehousing, and database optimisation
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, etc.)
  
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or managerial role.
  
  

aPriori Offers

A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees.

aPriori offers competitive compensation and unique benefits including pension match, private medical & dental, flexible time off, aPriori days, and more in a dynamic, growing, innovative environment!

About APriori

Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up.

With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, pub nights, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.

Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, “How can I do better?” and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each other’s successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you!

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