Software Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

aPriori offers an industry-leading Manufacturing Insights platform that empowers the world’s largest manufacturers to identify, reduce, and manage manufacturing costs, carbon emissions, and feasibility challenges. By leveraging patented simulation technology, the platform generates real-time data insights, unlocking value and enabling data-driven decision-making to achieve cost savings, boost efficiency, and speed up time to market.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed, Belfast-based Data Platform Team in building a next-generation data platform which will leverage aPriori’s proprietary data to deliver powerful insights and AI capabilities.

In this role, you will collaborate with aPriori product and domain experts to build a modern data pipeline with product-facing and internal capabilities for BI, traditional and generative AI. Leveraging your expertise in data engineering or AI/ML engineering, you will be responsible for driving cross-domain collaboration through a rapidly scalable data platform to support enterprise-level analytics. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and proven experience managing software engineering teams with a solid understanding of data quality and experience with one or more major cloud platforms’ data and AI offerings.

Location: Belfast (Hybrid- 2-3 days’ per week in office)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Data Platform team through design, development, and delivery of a modern data pipeline for BI and AI/ML.
• Evaluate the technical decisions of the team to improve data processing, storage, and analytics capabilities
• Foster a high-performing team culture through strong leadership, team collaboration, and talent development
• Manage, mentor and evaluate engineers' performance to drive efficiency, professional growth and team success
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to translate organisational goals into technical direction for the data engineering team
• Effectively plan and oversee data platform projects, managing team workload to ensure consistent delivery and achievement of targets
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership, ensuring transparency and realistic expectation management
• Contribute to the organisation’s technical strategy ensuring that the team’s work aligns with the company’s goals

• Proven ability to lead software engineering teams (people management and technical delivery)
• Proven experience in effectively allocating team resources, managing workloads, and coaching high-performing individual contributors.
• Experience with building data pipelines featuring modern tools such as: dbt, Airflow/Temporal, Airbyte, Debezium, Kafka Connect.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala
• Expertise with at least one modern data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, etc.)

Bonus Skills/Abilities

• Experience with traditional AI/ML and related cloud offerings (TensorFlow/Google Vertex/Amazon Sagemaker)
• Experience with generative AI, leveraging 3rd party LLMs to build platform/product capabilities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or managerial role.

aPriori Offers

A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees.

aPriori offers competitive compensation and unique benefits including pension match, private medical & dental, flexible time off, aPriori days, and more in a dynamic, growing, innovative environment!

About aPriori

Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up.

With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, pub nights, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.

Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, “How can I do better?” and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each other’s successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you!

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