Senior Engineering Manager, Data

Builts Mission:Connect and simplify doing business in real estate.

Built is the AI-powered platform transforming the way real estate is financed developed and managed. Purpose-built for real estate and construction Built began by fixing construction draw management for lenders and has grown into a comprehensive operating system addressing some of the industrys most complex Built is a partner to more than 350 lenders over 80000 borrowers and owners and thousands of contractors powering 86000 active projects valued at more than $300 billion. Learn more at.

• Trusted: accurate governed explainable
• Fast: optimized performance and cost low latency where it matters
• Composable: clean models that scale with new products
• Self-serve: enables Product Analytics and GTM teams
• Reliable: observable resilient and operationally excellent

• Coach engineers through clear expectations feedback and career development
• Hire and retain top talent and build a high-performance inclusive culture
• Establish strong delivery and operational rituals including planning retrospectives and incident reviews

• Define and evolve the architecture for ingestion transformation orchestration governance and data products
• Drive a roadmap that balances foundational platform investments with product delivery needs
• Champion best practices including dbt patterns data contracts testing and documentation

• Ensure pipelines and models are accurate observable secure and scalable
• Improve reliability through alerting SLAs and SLOs runbooks and root-cause analysis
• Partner with platform engineering on deployment patterns cost optimization and environment strategy

• Collaborate with Product Analytics Security and Engineering leaders to ensure data enables customer and business outcomes
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders on tradeoffs risks and timelines
• Influence the broader organization on data quality trust and accountability

• Stay close to the work through architecture reviews pairing design docs and occasional implementation
• Bring strong judgment to tooling and build-versus-buy decisions across Snowflake DBT and Sigma

• 5 years of experience in an engineering management role leading teams in a fast-paced high-growth environment
• Direct experience leading a data engineering or data platform team specifically not just general engineering management
• Proven ability to scale teams and systems through hiring process architecture and delivery
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for fostering a culture of innovation learning and continuous improvement
• Player-coach mindset with prior experience as an individual contributor
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake DBT or Sigma (deep experience in at least one)
• Experience building modern data platforms including ELT modeling layers governance and self-serve analytics
• Travel Requirement: This role should expect to travel approximately five to six times per year including two company-wide Connect Weeks and additional PD&E leadership travel weeks to Nashville TN or another designated location. Exact cadence varies based on business needs and role responsibilities.

• Experience with streaming data patterns and event-driven architectures using Kafka
• Experience operating production systems in AWS and partnering closely with platform and SRE teams
• Exposure to AI/ML or data science workflows: youll oversee a staff engineer focused on AI/ML but hands-on AI/ML experience is a plus not a requirement
• Comfort working in TypeScript and Python ecosystems for data-adjacent services and tooling
• Familiarity with data quality testing lineage observability and access control patterns

Builts salary range for this position is $225000 - 265000 USD per year. The pay range is designed to accommodate upward mobility in the role; therefore it encompasses the full span of proficiency levels for this role and we believe that the midpoint of the range is competitive in the market. Salary is just one component of Builts total compensation package for employees; your total rewards package at Built will include equity market-current medical dental and vision coverage an unlimited PTO policy and other benefits.

Travel Requirement: Employees who are not based in the Nashville area are required to travel to our Nashville office at least twice per year for company gatherings such as Connect Week. Additional travel to Nashville may be required based on your role and business needs.

Perks:

• The rare opportunity to radically disrupt a $1.5T industry
• Competitive benefits including: uncapped vacation US ONLY medical dental & vision insurance
• Robust compensation package including equity in the form of stock options
• Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development
• 401k with match and expedited vesting US ONLY

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