Avalara

What You'll Do

The Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) team is seeking a Data & Analytics Engineering Manager to lead our team in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines and analytics infrastructure. As a Data & Analytics Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in empowering a team of engineers to build and enhance analytics applications and a modern data platform using Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool), Python, Terraform, and Airflow. You will become an expert in Avalara’s financial, marketing, sales, and operations data. The ideal candidate will have deep SQL experience, an understanding of modern data stacks and technology, demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience, and an ability to drive innovation and manage complex projects. This position will report to Senior Manager.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Mentor a team of data engineers, providing guidance and support to ensure a high level of quality and career growth
• Lead a team of data engineers in the development and maintenance of data pipelines, data modelling, code reviews and data products
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable data solutions
• Drive innovation and continuous improvements within the data engineering team
• Build maintainable and scalable processes and playbooks to ensure consistent delivery and quality across projects
• Drive adoption of best practices in data engineering and data modelling
• Be the visible lead of the team- coordinate communication, releases, and status to various stakeholders

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years experience in data engineering field, with deep SQL knowledge
• 2+ years management experience, including direct technical reports
• 5+ years’ experience with data warehousing concepts and technologies
• 4+ years of working with Git, and demonstrated experience using these tools to facilitate growth of engineers
• 4+ years working with Snowflake
• 3+ years working with dbt (dbt core preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Snowflake, Dbt, AWS Certified
• 3+ years working with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• 2+ years working with CI / CD, and demonstrated ability to build and operate pipelines
• Experience and understanding of Snowflake administration and security principles
• Demonstrated experience with Airflow

How We’ll Take Care Of You

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness

Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity

Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.