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They treat data engineering as an enablement function - partnering closely with Software and Data Analytics to understand what slows them down, then removing it so teams can ship faster and get to insights faster. This is a player-coach role: they manage and grow a team of data engineers while operating data pipelines and building and reviewing production code.\nThis role reports to the head of the Data team. They own technical data governance and monitoring across our stack (Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, and Airflow), set the bar for pipeline best practices, and lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted workflows. As the team and product grow, they shape how the platform and its practices evolve. This role combines hands-on technical ownership with people leadership and cross-functional partnership.\nHow You Will Spend Your Time at Tovala\nManage and grow a team of data and analytics engineers, and hire as the team grows\nDevelop and build production pipelines and own problems end-to-end\nOwn the team's technical roadmap, balancing platform investment and tech debt against delivery for the business.\nEmpower our data analytics team to move faster and drive better outcomes by partnering closely with software engineering to design systems that ensure timely availability of high quality data\nPartner with Data Analytics to support source of truth datasets and metric definitions, so data means the same thing across every report and team\nOwn data ingestion and pipeline reliability, from source onboarding through staged, analytics-ready data\nOwn the architecture of the data platform and the design of shared datasets\nLead the data applications function: set priorities, architecture, and quality standards for the models and tools the business depends on \nOwn technical data governance: access, security, and privacy controls that meet legal requirements, plus lineage, quality checks, and data contracts\nImprove and enforce data engineering best practices, and review code with care\nUse AI-assisted development tools and workflows as a core part of how they work, and lead the team's adoption of these practices\nDrive alignment and decisions with stakeholders, including upstream design with software engineering\nAbout You\n5+ years in data engineering, including 1+ years as a people manager with direct reports. First-time managers with strong early results are welcome.\nStill writing production code today, with deep experience in dbt and an orchestrator such as Airflow on a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake.\nExperience designing data systems end to end, not just building within an existing design, and making sound architectural tradeoffs.\nStrong pipeline best practices: testing, CI/CD for data, modular modeling, code review and documentation.\nHands-on experience with data monitoring and observability: alerting, freshness and quality checks, lineage and incident response.\nExperience implementing data access, security, and privacy controls, such as role-based access, PII masking, and retention.\nExperience preparing data for AI use, such as semantic layers or well-documented datasets that agents and LLM tools can query safely.\nDaily, practical use of AI tools in your own engineering work, and enthusiasm for helping a team adopt them.\nAn enablement mindset: you measure success by how much 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