Sr Manager, Data Platform Automation

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.  

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we’re developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Data Platform Automation team that enables the use of data in decision making across the company from engineering to flight operations and more. This position will be responsible for developing the roadmap and implementing the functionality to allow the operational and analytical data platform to integrate and function across the company.

This position requires a technical leader with the ability to lead technical teams and partner with sister teams and customers. Experience building event driven systems, deep knowledge of public clouds, serverless compute, kubernetes, CI/CD, data fabric, metadata management and spark computing are vital for this role.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Join our team and help Blue Origin use data to build a road to space!

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor an experienced team of Data Engineers and DevOps Engineers to build, integrate and scale a multi-layer, enterprise wide data processing and management platform

• Passionate about data quality and trust

• Build and scale our data lakehouse architecture to work for more users in more ways

• Work with practitioners and customers to develop new ways to federate analysis, operational application development and enable a "shift left" philosophy to data ownership

• Define and manage incident management, customer communications, RCAs and implement mitigation strategies for platform outages

• Conduct make vs buy decisions for new technology and conduct vendor assessments when needed to augment and improve the platform

• Be a center of excellence for the data engineering and data ops practices at Blue Origin

• Work with Data Governance and Cyber Security to ensure data models are implemented in a secure and ethical manner

• Monitor, analyze and report on the performance of the platform, identifying areas for improvement and making data-driven decisions to optimize the platform's performance and return on investment.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language

• 3+ years of people management experience

• Experience having built part of a modern data lakehouse stack, from design to production code

• Experience hiring top talent and driving career growth for early-in-career and senior engineers

• The ability to set ambitious goals with measurable results and familiarity with frameworks such as OKRs

• A proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale projects

• Experience working with product managers to collaboratively set a vision

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

• Deep technical knowledge about one or more of Spark, Databricks, Palantir, ML Flow or similar technologies

• Clear understanding of the software development lifecycle from reviewing requirements to debugging sophisticated systems in production

• Experience maintaining and operating always-on cloud services

• Comfortable diving into the code with your team when the situation calls for it

• Experience with AWS, data engineering, data modeling and data quality

• Experience working with APIs and Cloud based data platform implementations including observability & monitoring, data cataloging, metadata management and security & governance

• Ability to lead product roll-out process from conception through final operationalization

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion. 

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.  
   

Compensation Range for:

Other site ranges may differ

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

Benefits include:  Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

Paid Time Off:  Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

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