# Data Engineering Manager

Role Summary At Tovala, the Data Engineering Manager leads the Data Engineering team and owns the pipelines, platform, and data applications that every data consumer at the company depends on. 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. This 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. How You Will Spend Your Time at Tovala Manage and grow a team of data and analytics engineers, and hire as the team grows Develop and build production pipelines and own problems end-to-end Own the team's

- **Id**: 4296426
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tovala-data-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T20:51:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:27:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4098
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Food & Beverages, Prepared Foods

## Company

- **Id**: 6730
- **Name**: Tovala
- **Domain**: tovala.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tovala>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 185000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 185000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T01:27:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 185000
- **Is top pay**: no

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