{"id":2577403,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering","title":"Sr Manager, Engineering, Data Engineering","company":{"id":687749,"name":"LTK","domain":"shopltk.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/shopltk","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":71,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":136000,"max_usd":235000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":98},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Scala","optional":true},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":true},{"name":"Spark","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T22:11:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T16:11:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. \nWe empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry - a game changer when it comes to career growth.\nPosition Title: Senior Manager, Engineering, Data Engineering\nDepartment/Function: Data Engineering \nReports to: VP, Engineering \nLocation: Remote from the U.S. \nEmployment type: Full-Time\n #LI-Remote #LI-CW1 \nAbout the role\nThe Senior Manager, Data Engineering leads the team responsible for building and operating the data capabilities that power LTK's products, reporting, analytics, governance, and emerging AI use cases.\nThis leader owns the Data Engineering team's technical direction and execution across data architecture, pipelines, data products, data quality, and platform reliability. The role is responsible for evolving LTK's data ecosystem toward well-governed, reusable, and trusted data capabilities that support business needs.\nThe person in this role will bring strong people leadership, technical judgment, and business acumen. They will translate complex priorities into actionable plans, balance near-term delivery with long-term platform investments, and build a team that consistently delivers reliable, scalable solutions.\nHow you will make an impact\nLead, coach, and develop a team of data and software engineers, setting clear performance expectations, supporting career growth, and building a high-performing, inclusive team.\nSupport hiring, talent development, and succession planning to strengthen the team's capabilities and long-term effectiveness.\nDefine and drive the technical direction for the Data Engineering team's platforms and capabilities, including data architecture, modeling, ingestion, transformation, storage, APIs, and governance.\nGuide the development of scalable, reusable data models and shared capabilities that support multiple business domains and reduce fragmented solutions.\nPartner with Product, Analytics, Finance, Security, Legal/Privacy, TPMO, and Engineering to translate business priorities into clear roadmaps, delivery milestones, and technical tradeoffs.\nLead execution of key data engineering initiatives, including platform modernization, analytics enablement, data quality improvements, and migration of critical metrics to trusted sources.\nCollaborate with senior engineering leadership on resource planning, investment priorities, organizational needs, and competing business demands.\nEstablish and maintain standards for data quality, reliability, observability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.\nImprove engineering efficiency and platform sustainability through automation, documentation, reusable practices, and clear technical ownership.\nEstablish effective team practices for planning, technical design, delivery, incident management, and continuous improvement.\nProactively identify and manage technical and delivery risks, resolve dependencies, and communicate decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders.\nWhat you will bring to LTK\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering.\n3+ years of people leadership experience, with demonstrated success developing engineers, managing performance, and building high-performing teams.\nExperience owning technical roadmaps and leading complex engineering initiatives, balancing business priorities with scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost.\nStrong technical judgment across data architecture, distributed systems, data modeling, data pipelines, cloud platforms, and production operations.\nExperience establishing engineering practices that improve delivery predictability, operational reliability, team effectiveness, and continuous improvement.\nStrong communication, stakeholder management, and business judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing needs, and build alignment across technical and business teams.\nNice to Have\nExperience building or modernizing enterprise data platforms, including developing trusted, reusable data capabilities and applying data governance principles across data quality, lineage, ownership, privacy, and access controls.\nExperience with modern data engineering technologies such as Python or Scala, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, AWS services, and Snowflake or comparable platforms.\nWhat we offer for full-time salaried employees\nThe opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce\nA remote-first, productivity-first environment\nCompetitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family\n401(k) with LTK company matching\nMedical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance\nPaid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave\nSummer Fridays and Flexible PTO\nFor temporary full-time employees, benefits eligibility may vary\nAbout LTK\nFounded in 2011, LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content. The full-service platform connects brands, creators, and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that make content instantly shoppable. Today, premium lifestyle creators in 160+ countries drive more than $5 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 million consumers turn to LTK Shops in the LTK shopping platform each month to find inspiration and instantly shop the styles recommended by their favorite creators. More than 8,000 retailers and 1M brands partner with LTK to gain access to its global creator network for content that converts against performance-driven, cross-channel KPIs. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and currently operates on five continents.\nOur mission\nTo empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.\nOur values\nHere to win\nCommit to the journey\nWork well\nCommitment to diversity\nLTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team. We employ a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to build a meaningful company and culture. \nFor US-Based Roles: We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B; authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.\nAny unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.\nLTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote","description_format":"text","description_chars":6882,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Dental insurance","Equity","Health insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Influencers","Content Creation","Influencer Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T00:33:42Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":71,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T18:23:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27916,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":687749},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=687749"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fltk-sr-manager-engineering-data-engineering"}]}