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As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we’re looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what’s possible in their role. Our purpose is to help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.\nCommerce - the company behind BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift islooking for an AI-first Data Engineering Manager to lead our Enterprise Data Engineering team. You'll own the roadmap for the Snowflake- and Airflow-based platforms that power reporting, analytics, AI and data products across the business, while building a team that treats AI agents as first-class teammates in the data engineering lifecycle.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has shipped production data pipelines, has led engineers before, and is genuinely energized by agentic workflows - not as a buzzword, but as a daily practice for how data gets built, tested, and monitored. You'll spend real time coaching your team on best practices in data engineering: pairing with coding agents, building and governing autonomous pipeline and quality agents, and raising the team's bar for speed and craft.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers - hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance management\nOwn the technical roadmap and architecture for Commerce’s Enterprise Data platform, built primarily on Snowflake and orchestrated with Airflow\nChampion an AI-first way of working by embedding agentic tools (e.g., Claude Code) into the team’s daily workflow for pipeline development, testing, documentation, and code review\nCoach and upskill engineers on agentic data engineering - designing agent-assisted or autonomous data quality checks, self-healing pipelines, and LLM-powered data products - with clear guardrails, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop review\nPartner with Analytics, Data Science, Product, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, well-governed data products\nSet and enforce standards for data quality, observability, lineage, and cost efficiency across the Snowflake/Airflow estate\nDrive modernization of data pipelines and evaluate new data and AI tooling to keep the platform on the cutting edge\nEstablish design review, incident response, and documentation practices that scale the team’s impact without scaling headcount 1:1.\nReport on team health, delivery, and platform reliability to engineering and business leadership\nWho you are\n7+ years in data engineering, with 3+ years directly managing or leading a team of data engineers.\nDeep, hands-on experience with Snowflake and Apache Airflow in production, including performance tuning, cost management, and workflow orchestration at scale.\nExperience working with distributed teams across time zones.\nStrong SQL and Python skills, and comfort reviewing or writing pipeline code alongside your team.\nExperience with dbt, Fivetran/Airbyte, or similar modern ELT tooling alongside Snowflake and Airflow.\nReal experience using AI coding assistants or agentic tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), Snowflake CoCo in a professional engineering workflow \nA track record of mentoring and developing engineers, including those more senior or specialized than you in a given area.\nWorking knowledge of data modeling, data governance, and data security/compliance practices.\nExcellent communication skills - you can translate technical tradeoffs into business terms and back again.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nNice to have\nExperience designing or operating agentic workflows: LLM-driven pipeline monitoring, autonomous anomaly detection, RAG-based data catalogs/search, or agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, or MCP-based tooling.\nBackground in ecommerce, SaaS, or marketplace data (order, catalog, or customer data at scale).\nExperience building internal platforms or self-service tooling that let analysts and other engineers move faster.\nFamiliarity with cost governance and FinOps practices for cloud data platforms.\nWork Where You Thrive:\nFor candidates based in the Austin or Atlanta metro area, the position follows a hybrid work model with three days per week in the office, balancing focused individual work with meaningful in-person collaboration.\nPay Transparency: $150,000 - $220,000\nCompensation Transparency\nThe national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.\nFinal compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.\nWhere applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.\nInclusion and Belonging\nAt Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.\nLearn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/\nIdentity Verification\nTo protect our candidates and company from fraudulent activity, our interview process includes a government ID and biometric verification via Persona, our trusted identity verification provider. All information is collected and processed securely in accordance with applicable privacy laws.\nProtect Yourself Against Hiring Scams: Our Corporate Disclaimer\nCommerce, along with many other employers, has become the subject of fraudulent job offers to hopeful prospective job seekers.\nBe advised:\nCommerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.\nCommerce will never:\nrequire payment of recruitment fees from candidates;\nrequest personally identifiable information through unsanctioned websites or applications;\nattempt to solicit money from you as part of the hiring process or as part of an employment offer;\nsolicit money to complete visa requirements as part of a job offer.\nIf you receive unsolicited offers of employment from Commerce, we urge you to be extremely cautious and avoid engaging or responding.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7529,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Design & Creative","Branding"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T06:51:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-05T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":220000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/makeswift-manager-data-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/makeswift-manager-data-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T00:15:58Z","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","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":273,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4727,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"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":1768664},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1768664"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmakeswift-manager-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%2Fmakeswift-manager-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%2Fmakeswift-manager-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/makeswift-manager-data-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmakeswift-manager-data-engineering"}]}