Sr. Manager, Data Platform Engineering

About the Role

SimpliSafe is investing in a multi-quarter Enterprise Data Platform program to move our data and analytics stack onto a modern lakehouse. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to lead the team that builds, operates, and evolves that platform, ensuring SimpliSafe owns and can run what we build. You’ll manage the current platform, partner with vendors to implement the new one, and work with the Senior Manager, Data Engineering to plan the deprecation of legacy infrastructure. You’ll stay close enough to the technical work to review designs, challenge estimates, and make the critical calls, without being your team’s sole architect.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll report to the Senior Director, Data Platform, and lead a team of core platform and data integration engineers plus a Data Architect. You’ll collaborate closely with:

• The Senior Manager, Data Engineering, whose team builds and operates the silver and gold pipelines serving our Analytics and Data Science organizations.
• The Senior Program Manager, who owns the integrated roadmap and executive reporting.
• Security, Privacy, and Infrastructure teams, who retain enterprise policy and risk accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: Hire, coach, develop, and performance-manage platform, DevOps, and integration engineers plus the Data Architect. Manage capacity across build, migration, and legacy support.
• Own the platform roadmap: Translate target architecture into sequenced capabilities, engineering standards, and team plans, balancing new capability against reliability, cost, and technical debt.
• Own the core platform: Deliver environments, deployment patterns, orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation as self-service patterns and templates—not a ticket queue.
• Own ingestion and integration: Build reusable frameworks across batch, replication, CDC, and API, plus standards for source onboarding, schema change, data contracts, metadata, and lineage.
• Own reliability and observability: Drive incident response, recovery, on-call practices, monitoring, and alerting, extending coverage across data products with the Senior Manager, Data Engineering.
• Own platform cost and performance: Optimize compute and workload costs and improve cost visibility, partnering with Finance and Infrastructure.
• Set architecture direction: Collaborate with the Data Architect on major decisions, standards, and exceptions without becoming an approval gate. Embed security, privacy, access, and governance into the platform’s operations.
• Own technical acceptance of implementation-partner work: Define acceptance criteria, review mechanisms, and knowledge transfer to ensure our engineers can operate the platform before handoff.
• Lead platform and ingestion migration: Support Data Engineering’s workload and data-product cutover off the legacy estate.

Requirements

• 8+ years in data platform, data engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, with a track record of hiring senior and staff engineers and growing technical leadership.
• Built and operated a modern cloud lakehouse in production (Databricks or comparable), including the environment, CI/CD, and access model—not just the workloads running on it.
• Ran a platform migration while the legacy environment stayed in production: parallel operation, reconciliation, cutover, and decommissioning.
• Led external delivery partners or vendor engineering teams. Defined technical acceptance criteria, held partners accountable, and brought capabilities in-house rather than leaving dependencies.
• Built ingestion at scale (batch, replication, CDC, and API) on a reusable framework, with production pipeline reliability as your responsibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Databricks depth: Unity Catalog, Workflows/Jobs, Delta/DLT.
• AWS data stacks (S3, Iceberg/Delta) and streaming (Kafka).
• Owned platform cost and performance: accountable for a consumption or budget line, with specific optimizations you can point to.
• Retired or replaced in-house platform components in favor of supported alternatives.
• Experience in consumer products, hardware, technology, or subscription businesses.

Values

• Customer Obsessed: Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships.
• Aim High: Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego: Maintaining a “no job too small” attitude and an open, inclusive, and humble style.
• One Team: Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
• Lift As We Climb: Investing in developing others and helping those around us succeed.
• Lean & Nimble: Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.

Benefits

• A mission- and values-driven culture with a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow, and thrive.
• A comprehensive total rewards package supporting wellness and providing security for you and your family. Learn more about our total rewards here.
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together, offer networking and mentorship opportunities, and advocate for change.

Pay

The target annual base pay range for this role is $171,200 - $228,200. This range represents our good-faith estimate based on a market-based compensation approach, adjusted annually. Individual compensation packages are tailored using job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and other relevant factors. Beyond base pay, we offer participation in our annual bonus program, equity, and other forms of compensation, along with a full range of medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits. More details here.