Manager, Data Engineering
About the role
IT accelerates the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable and innovative solutions and leadership. We are a global organization that supports all technology needed to deliver products and solutions to customers enabling them to focus on delivering high quality patient care. We strive to provide exceptional customer service and experience in the most efficient means possible, requiring alignment and cross-functional communication.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, support, and develop a team of Data Engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, performance management, feedback, and career development.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture focused on continuous learning and operational excellence.
- Establish performance expectations aligned with organizational priorities.
- Partner with Product Owners, Technical Leads, and delivery teams to support engineers embedded across multiple Agile teams.
- Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, workforce planning, succession planning, and retention of engineering talent.
- Promote engineering excellence through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and consistent engineering practices across teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing technical professionals.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound technical decisions in situations with incomplete information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong planning, organizational, and prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven experience designing, building, and supporting operational data pipelines using modern cloud-native technologies.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud services, including S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and related technologies.
- Experience with Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Apache Iceberg, or comparable modern data engineering platforms.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering practices.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Typically five or more years of experience leading technical professionals through direct people management or equivalent leadership experience.
- Experience building cloud-native data services and ETL/ELT pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and large-scale data processing technologies.
- Experience supporting production platforms with a focus on operational excellence, monitoring, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments.
Skills
- Leadership and coaching skills.
- Technical problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies and data engineering platforms.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
Benefits
- Starting Salary: $120000 - $150000 / year
- Annual cash bonus
- Health / Dental / Vision Benefits
- Day-One 5% matching 401k
- Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!
Pay
Starting Salary: $120000 - $150000 / year
Schedule
We are only considering those in the New England area, preferably Maine, but also would consider NH or MA. If near the HQ we offer a flexible hybrid requirement of only 8 days per month on-site in our Westbrook, Maine HQ. If further away in NH or MA we are open to less frequent than 8 per month.