Engineering Manager, Data Platform

What you'll do

• You'll manage the Data Platform team: hire for it, grow the people on it and set its direction.
• This is a player-coach role.
• Roughly half your time goes to hands-on work on the platform, and the other half to leading the team.

• Lead a team of two engineers. Set clear direction, run one-on-ones and performance reviews, give direct feedback and coach each person toward work that stretches them
• Hire as the team grows. Define the roles, run the interview loops and decide who joins
• Own the data platform end to end: ingestion and change data capture, the Snowflake warehouse, dbt and the semantic layer, and the tooling that internal and customer-facing analytics run on
• Ship native warehouse data sharing into customers' own environments, including the schema contracts customers will build on for years
• Design how sensitive customer data is handled across analytics and BI, so teams get the answers they need and customer data stays protected
• Set the team's technical standard for modeling, testing, documentation and code review, and meet it in your own code
• Work with Product, Compliance and other engineering teams to decide what data we expose, to whom and under what constraints. Make the platform good enough that teams choose it over building their own

What we're looking for

You want both halves of this job. You'd be unhappy in a role that took you away from building, and just as unhappy in one where nobody grew because of you.

• Deep analytics engineering and data systems experience. Strong SQL, dbt and a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred), with real depth in data modeling: grain, slowly changing dimensions and what makes a model trustworthy
• Experience owning architecture from ingestion through the warehouse to delivery, including ingestion and change data capture tools (Artie or similar) and how they fail: late-arriving data, schema drift, out-of-order events
• A record of leading people. You've set direction others followed, grown someone on purpose, given feedback that was hard to give and raised a team's standard. Formal management experience is not required. We care about what you did, not the title you held
• Good judgment about sequencing. Given more good ideas than quarters, you pick what comes first and can explain why the rest wait
• Experience getting other teams to adopt something you built, or agreeing a constraint with a function that had reasons to resist, with the relationship intact afterwards
• Based in the New York City area and able to work from our Union Square office Tuesday through Thursday

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with native warehouse data delivery, such as Snowflake Data Sharing or Marketplace
• Background in fintech, financial services or another regulated industry, especially handling PII in analytics
• Experience building a semantic or metrics layer and connecting it to BI tools
• Exposure to agentic or LLM-based workflows and the data infrastructure behind them

Additional information

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately, and opportunities will grow as the company scales up. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?

Pay and benefits

Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Below is the anticipated starting base compensation range for this role; however, pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, in-demand skills, relevant experience, and/or geography. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package. Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details and what compensation could look like for you specifically!

This position has a salary range of $255,000 - $295,000.

Benefits and Perks

We invest in your health, your financial future, and your growth. Here's what you can expect:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from the first of the month after you join, including $0 employee-only premium options, plus FSA options and an Alloy-funded HSA with our high-deductible plan
• Healia: if your spouse or partner has health insurance through their employer, Alloy may cover up to 100% of your family's costs on their plan
• Alloy-paid One Medical membership, Spring Health therapy and coaching, Superpower advanced lab testing, and ClassPass credits
• Stock options for every full-time employee
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of pay, vested immediately, plus a mega backdoor Roth option
• Free, unlimited 1:1 financial planning through Addition Wealth
• Unlimited PTO plus company holidays
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for eligible birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
• Annual learning and development stipend, plus a home office stipend to set up your workspace
• Hybrid work environment: most team members work from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan, Tuesday through Thursday, with in-office expectations that vary by role. Catered lunches from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee-organized cultural events bring energy to the office. On Mondays and Fridays, many employees work remotely, while some take advantage of the quieter office.

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