Virta Health
Engineering Manager, Data Engineering
$175K–$228K
Remote · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads Virta’s data engineering and analytics engineering teams, modernizes its data platform, and enables self-service analytics and trusted data capabilities for AI and ML.
What you'll do
- Coach and grow data and analytics engineers, manage hiring, and develop distinct technical career paths.
- Lead the BigQuery and Looker migration, while improving reusable data patterns, models, semantic definitions, reliability, and governance.
- Set priorities with stakeholders and build data capabilities for agents and ML in partnership with Applied AI and MLOps.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including direct leadership of data engineering and analytics engineering work; deep expertise in one discipline is sufficient if you have successfully led and developed engineers in the other.
- Strong technical judgment across data pipelines, cloud warehouses, SQL and data modeling, transformation frameworks, orchestration, and BI or semantic layers.
- Experience leading a significant data platform or analytics migration, including validation, stakeholder adoption, and operational continuity.
- Experience owning stakeholder discovery and roadmap prioritization without a dedicated product manager.
Nice to have
- Experience with BigQuery, dbt Cloud, Looker/LookML, GCP, Python, Go, or infrastructure as code.
- Experience building data agents, governed natural-language analytics, AI semantic layers, or data capabilities for production ML systems.
Pay
$175,000-228,000 USD base salary
Tools
BigQuery, dbt Cloud, Looker/LookML, GCP, Python, Go
AI focus
Build and operate data agents; provide governed datasets, semantic context, and tools for agents; partner on data access, quality, and interfaces for ML workflows; apply AI-assisted development and automation.
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