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Job Summary:
Resonate is a leading provider of AI-powered consumer data and technology, seeking a People-First Engineering Manager to lead their Data Engineering team. This role focuses on developing people, ensuring alignment with technical strategies, and delivering results through effective team management and collaboration with product managers.
Responsibilities:
• Lead, mentor, and retain a high-performing team of 5–7 data engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, career planning, and performance reviews.
• Create clear growth paths and development opportunities.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and operational excellence.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, and team composition.
• Remove roadblocks and protect the team from unnecessary distractions.
• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Collaborate with the technical lead to ensure architectural decisions align with strategy and scalability goals.
• Stay informed on emerging data engineering trends and assess their relevance.
• Promote high standards for code quality, design, and operational practices.
• Help the team balance technical trade-offs with business needs.
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure commitments are realistic and met.
• Lead incident response from detection to resolution, including communications and blameless post-mortems.
• Maintain adherence to engineering standards and agile processes.
• Monitor team health, velocity, and delivery risks, and address proactively.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in engineering, with 5+ years in people management.
• Proven success building and scaling engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts and challenges.
• Agile/Scrum leadership experience.
• Excellent communicator, able to bridge engineering and business conversations.
• Demonstrated history of growing engineering talent and fostering career progression.
• Strong emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills.
• Cloud infrastructure and cost considerations.
• Technical risk assessment and critical questioning.
Preferred:
• Experience in data-first or analytics-driven organizations.
• Track record improving retention and team satisfaction.
• Success scaling teams from ~5 to 10+ engineers.
• Background in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments.
• History of thriving in partnership with strong technical leads.
Company:
The Resonate platform translates deep insights about people's values, preferences, and beliefs into more relevant marketing and advertising. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Resonate has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
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