Manager, Data Engineering

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers, establishing clear expectations for delivery, technical quality, documentation, and production support.
• Own the planning and delivery of data engineering initiatives across assigned business domains, balancing modernization, integration, operational support, and stakeholder priorities.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable data pipelines, models, and data products.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and guidance on Databricks, Spark, SQL, and lakehouse design.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for bronze, silver, and gold data layers, data modeling, reusable frameworks, testing, source control, and CI/CD.
• Lead the migration and integration of data from legacy platforms, SAP, Salesforce, operational databases, APIs, and file-based processes into the AWS Databricks environment.
• Ensure data solutions include appropriate quality controls, reconciliation, observability, lineage, security, RBAC, and production monitoring.
• Partner with business, analytics, architecture, application, and infrastructure teams to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and communicate delivery risks and tradeoffs.
• Maintain continuity for business-critical reporting and operational data processes during system migrations and organizational change.
• Promote ownership and accountability throughout the full engineering lifecycle, including requirements, development, deployment, documentation, incident resolution, and knowledge transfer.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in data engineering, including experience designing and supporting production data pipelines.
• Previous experience leading or managing data engineers, technical teams, or major data delivery workstreams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, and SQL.
• Experience building data solutions using lakehouse or medallion architecture patterns.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, relational modeling, data warehousing, and analytical data product design.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Git-based development, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, and controlled production deployment.
• Experience integrating data from enterprise applications, relational databases, APIs, and file-based sources.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in environments with ambiguity, changing priorities, legacy systems, and complex dependencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and translate business processes into technical requirements., * Experience with AWS services such as S3, IAM, networking, Secrets Manager, Lambda, or related data services.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Workflows, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables or Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Experience with SAP data, including SAP ECC, S/4HANA, HANA, finance, supply chain, or operational data domains.
• Familiarity with Python software engineering practices, reusable framework development, and automated testing.

At IGT, we consider a wide range of factors in determining compensation, including skills, experience, education, and geographic location. These factors may result in variation in starting pay. The estimated starting compensation range for this role is $55,177-$156,700 USD, based on a good-faith assessment at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary. IGT complies with all applicable pay transparency and compensation laws and collective bargaining agreements, where applicable.

Base pay is one component of IGT’s total rewards program. Depending on the role, employees may be eligible for bonus or commission opportunities. IGT also offers a comprehensive benefits package, which may include a 401(k) savings plan with company contributions, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and other wellness programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

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