IT Manager - Data Platform & Engineering (AI)

Location: Corporate offices in Brownsville, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, or Neenah, Wisconsin, United States

Company

hirify.global is a family-owned infrastructure contractor with approximately 10,000 employees and 18,000 pieces of heavy equipment.

What you will do

• Recruit, hire, and develop the founding data engineering team.
• Build and evolve the enterprise data platform across ingestion, storage, transformation, and orchestration layers.
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to prioritize the engineering backlog and balance value, speed, cost, risk, and maintainability.
• Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and transformation logic as a hands-on technical leader.
• Collaborate with data architecture and governance teams to create durable, interoperable platform decisions.
• Establish engineering practices for reliable operations, support, automation, and future analytics and AI use cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, or software engineering.
• 4+ years leading technical teams, including hiring, coaching, and delivery accountability.
• Experience building and operating large-scale cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or BigQuery.
• Hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python, orchestration, transformation, automated testing, CI/CD, and batch and streaming ingestion.
• Experience with observable, reliable pipelines, monitoring, lineage, data quality, governance, privacy, security, and AI/GenAI use cases.

Culture & Benefits

• Training investment averaging $5,000 per employee annually.
• Health, dental, life, disability, flexible spending, and health savings account options.
• 401(k), legal plan, and identity theft and monitoring plan.
• Safety is treated as everyone’s responsibility.
• Growth opportunities in a quality-focused organization.