IT Manager - Cloud Data Engineering

About the Team
A global transportation company is modernizing its data solutions to remain competitive and meet evolving business needs. The Cloud Data Engineering team plays a key role in executing the technology portion of the company's Data Strategy. This team collaborates with technology leaders, the Data & Analytics business team, and industry partners to implement solutions for data reporting and analytics, governance, management, and engineering.

This initiative marks a significant technological shift, moving data solutions from a back-office reporting function to a core representation of business operations. This is an opportunity to be part of a leadership team driving these strategic imperatives.
Responsibilities
As an IT Manager - Cloud Data Engineering, you will:

• Foster a positive environment for team development, supporting career growth and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Ensure clear and transparent communication, expectation management, and strong employee engagement.
• Set priorities and align efforts across the team to drive key initiatives.
• Build relationships with IT managers supporting rental data solutions to ensure seamless project execution, release management, and functional and performance testing.
• Oversee alerting, monitoring, data ingestion, ETL processes, and 24/7 support for rental data solutions.
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering DevOps team to develop KPIs that enhance the availability and usability of data services.
• Drive strategic and tactical direction for staffing, products, support, and delivery within the rental domain.
• Work closely with Business and IT leaders to prioritize initiatives across multiple programs and projects.
• Manage teams responsible for analysis, design, development, testing, and support of data acquisition, integration, and serving applications.
• Execute project plans across multiple initiatives, including small to medium-sized product optimization efforts.
• Mentor and develop team members to ensure continued growth and success.

Qualifications
Required:

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Must reside in the St. Louis, MO area with the ability to work onsite as needed.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in a large enterprise IT organization.
• Experience in people management, including career development, hiring, performance management, and training.
• Strong analytical skills with a track record of successful project delivery.
• Experience with agile methodology.
• Background in cloud data engineering or data warehouse and reporting environments.
• Leadership experience managing application development teams with high-transaction, mission-critical workloads.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering concepts, project management methodologies, and business-IT collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to use data-driven insights for decision-making and storytelling.
• Strong mentoring and team development skills.
• Commitment to incorporating security best practices into daily work.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure technologies.
• Expertise in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions leveraging cloud-native platforms.

Logistics & Benefits

• Location: St. Louis, MO (onsite as needed)
• Salary: $150,000 - $160,000 + Company Benefits (Direct Hire)
• The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.