Amazon
Senior Manager, Data Engineering, AWS Analytics Engineering
$202K–$274K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in data engineering, including 5+ years in engineering management; experience managing teams of 15–25+ engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree.
About the job
Leads AWS Analytics Engineering data engineers and owns the strategy, delivery, quality, governance, and operational reliability of large-scale data pipelines, models, and datasets.
What you'll do
- Build and develop the team, including hiring, performance management, and career growth; set its technical vision and delivery roadmap.
- Own delivery and trustworthiness of data solutions across 3–5 domains, including quality, governance, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Coordinate with technical and business stakeholders, manage priorities and dependencies, and represent the team in business and technical reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree.
- 10+ years of data engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management roles leading data engineering teams.
- Experience managing teams of 15–25+ engineers across multiple levels (L4–L6), including hiring, developing, and promoting senior engineers.
- Deep hands-on data engineering experience, stakeholder management, executive communication, roadmap ownership, AWS data services or equivalent cloud data platforms, and operational excellence.
Nice to have
- Experience leading platform modernization, org-wide data standards, or AI/ML adoption in data engineering.
- Experience with Redshift, Bigdata architecture, talent sourcing, cost optimization, or multi-account AWS security, compliance, and governance.
Pay
202,300.00 - 273,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, serverless, Iceberg
AI focus
Lead modernization, including adoption of AI/ML-assisted data engineering where it adds value; preferred experience includes agentic frameworks, LLM-assisted development, and automation.
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