Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data (Databricks)

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global develops AI and autonomous systems for aerospace, defense, and other security-sensitive environments.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Domain Enablement Engineers, and Data Governance specialists.
• Establish delivery rhythms covering planning, prioritization, capacity, roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communication.
• Translate enterprise data strategy and business-domain priorities into sequenced plans for platform onboarding, source integration, data products, semantic enablement, and governance.
• Coordinate delivery across data, platform, architecture, security, infrastructure, and business functions.
• Ensure production readiness, data quality, documentation, ownership, lineage, security, access controls, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Hire, coach, and retain a high-performing data team while monitoring delivery health and communicating progress, risks, and investment needs.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI or data platforms, data architecture, or related technical data disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience leading and developing technical teams responsible for data, analytics, data products, or data-platform delivery.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, Bronze/Silver/Gold patterns, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, data quality, metadata, lineage, and governed access.
• Experience translating business priorities into outcome-oriented roadmaps, scoped delivery plans, and realistic sequencing decisions.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders, software engineering, cloud and infrastructure, security, governance, and architecture functions.
• Strong judgment, communication, organizational leadership, and stakeholder-management skills in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Nice to have

• Hands-on Databricks experience, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, or Workflows.
• Experience building or scaling an enterprise data function, data-product operating model, or multi-domain analytics platform.
• Experience with supply chain, manufacturing, finance, GTM, HR, engineering, aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or other complex or regulated domains.
• Experience leading platform migrations, ERP transformations, enterprise data operating-model changes, or distributed delivery teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Collaboration across enterprise technology, platform engineering, enterprise architecture, security, governance, and business teams.
• Opportunity to shape the delivery model and organizational maturity of an enterprise data function.