• Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and operational excellence.

• Manage hiring, onboarding, and team composition.

• Remove roadblocks and protect the team from unnecessary distractions.

• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve conflicts constructively.

• Collaborate with the technical lead to ensure architectural decisions align with strategy and scalability goals.

• Stay informed on emerging data engineering trends and assess their relevance.

• Promote high standards for code quality, design, and operational practices.

• Help the team balance technical trade-offs with business needs.

• Partner with Product Managers to ensure commitments are realistic and met.

• Lead incident response from detection to resolution, including communications and blameless post-mortems.

• Maintain adherence to engineering standards and agile processes.

• Monitor team health, velocity, and delivery risks, and address proactively.

• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years in engineering, with 5+ years in people management.

• Proven success building and scaling engineering teams.

• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts and challenges.

• Agile/Scrum leadership experience.

• Excellent communicator, able to bridge engineering and business conversations.

• Demonstrated history of growing engineering talent and fostering career progression.

• Strong emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills.

• Big data technologies (Spark, EMR, data pipelines).

• Cloud infrastructure and cost considerations.

• Technical risk assessment and critical questioning.

Preferred:

• Experience in data-first or analytics-driven organizations.

• Track record improving retention and team satisfaction.

• Success scaling teams from ~5 to 10+ engineers.

• Background in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments.

• History of thriving in partnership with strong technical leads.

Company:

The Resonate platform translates deep insights about people's values, preferences, and beliefs into more relevant marketing and advertising. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Resonate has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.