Senior Engineering Manager - Analytics Platform
Role Overview
Faire is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Analytics Platform team.
The team owns data warehousing, ETL pipelines, medallion datasets, BI tooling, and agentic analytics tools used across the company.
The role sets technical direction and strategy while combining team management with hands-on architecture and code involvement.
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Role overview
Faire is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Analytics Platform team.
The team owns data warehousing, ETL pipelines, medallion datasets, BI tooling, and agentic analytics tools used across the company.
The role sets technical direction and strategy while combining team management with hands-on architecture and code involvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of eight engineers; own team structure and hiring and retention.
- Set platform vision and roadmap for data warehousing, ETL/ELT, foundational datasets, BI tooling, and integrations.
- Prioritize platform work and ensure data integrity, security, privacy, governance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Manage compute and storage efficiency, monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking.
- Build AI/LLM-powered tools and automation for analytics work.
- Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Finance, and Product Engineering to define priorities.
- Triage production issues, identify preventive improvements, guide architecture and code, and manage infrastructure vendor relationships.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership.
- Experience building and operating data platforms, including warehouses, ETL pipelines, orchestration, and analytics engineering workflows.
- Strong Python and SQL skills and willingness to write software during onboarding.
- Understanding of performance, capacity, and cost trade-offs; experience resolving production data-system issues at scale.
- Record of building adopted platforms or tooling and developing engineering teams.
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous cross-functional problems and communicate with technical and non-technical partners.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Snowflake or another cloud data warehouse, leadership through other managers, and a relevant postgraduate degree are bonus qualifications.
Compensation
- Canada base salary range is CAD 190,500 to CAD 262,000 per year; equity and benefits are also available.
- Actual base pay depends on permissible factors including skills, experience, market demands, and primary work location.
Workplace
- Hybrid employees work in the office three days per week: Tuesdays, Thursdays, and one flexible Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
- Hybrid in-office roles may work remotely up to four weeks per year.
Benefits and culture
- The employer describes competitive pay, equity, comprehensive benefits, and access to enterprise AI tools.
- The posting highlights meaningful ownership, professional growth, and an inclusive workplace.
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