Data Engineering Manager (Commercial US)

Location: Morristown, New Jersey, United States; hybrid work arrangement

Company

hirify.global is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharmaceutical company developing medicines and vaccines for people worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers while promoting accountability, collaboration, engineering quality, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, deploy, and support scalable data pipelines, data platforms, and reusable data products for analytics, AI/ML, and commercial use cases.
• Provide architectural leadership across pipeline orchestration, distributed processing, cloud-native platforms, data integration, and data architecture.
• Lead discovery, solution design, technical planning, prioritization, capacity planning, and delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, release management, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with data, digital, infrastructure, cloud, security, analytics, product, governance, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable enterprise data solutions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform development, including 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Experience designing, building, and operating scalable pipelines, data platforms, and distributed processing solutions using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Hadoop, or similar.
• Strong experience with cloud-native data engineering, modern ETL/ELT, Snowflake or AWS environments, advanced SQL, and data modeling.
• Working knowledge of Python and scripting languages; experience with batch, near real-time, and streaming architectures, data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and data mesh principles.
• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, performance optimization, operational support, CI/CD, release management, and software engineering practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, STEM, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or pharmaceutical industries.
• Experience with Airflow, dbt, Informatica, or IICS.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and commercial data domains such as omnichannel, pricing, customer engagement, or sales analytics.
• Experience working with external vendors and offshore/onshore delivery models.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, future-focused environment centered on science, innovation, sustainability, and social responsibility.
• Career growth opportunities through promotions and lateral moves, including international opportunities.
• Company rewards and employee benefit programs.
• Healthcare, prevention, wellness, and family benefits, including at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
• Opportunity to modernize data and technology capabilities supporting a global biopharmaceutical business.