Data Engineering Manager
About SonderMind
At SonderMind, we believe everyone deserves one personalized, connected, and effective mental health destination to take care of their mental health and well-being at any stage of life. SonderMind care encompasses everything from therapy and medication management to meditation and mindfulness exercises. Our clinicians leverage our digital tools and research to deliver increasingly high-quality care and to develop thriving practices. Combining technology and human connection, SonderMind drives better outcomes through our comprehensive approach. Learn more about SonderMind at sondermind.com or download the mobile app, available on iOS and Android. To follow the latest SonderMind news, get to know our clients, and learn about what it’s like to work at SonderMind, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter.
About the Role
Data is the cornerstone at SonderMind for providing quality mental care that delivers results. We are a data-rich and data-centric company that generates large amounts of real-time data that enable insights discovery, reporting, and fast personalized care decision making. SonderMind’s rapid growth led to expanding the data engineering team, and we are now looking for someone to manage that critical team.
As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of data engineers in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and robust real-time data pipelines. Your role will involve strategic planning, team management, and hands-on technical work to ensure the effective processing and analysis of large datasets. You have a strong technical data engineering expertise, you are hands-on, thrive to manage projects and deliver results in a fast moving company. This role is pivotal in ensuring that data flows smoothly, remains consistent, and is available for insights, analytics, and our product offerings.
What you’ll do
- Lead and scale a team of data engineers responsible for delivering reliable, high-impact data infrastructure that powers applied science, analytics, machine learning, and product capabilities
- Drive the technical evolution of SonderMind’s data platform by modernizing legacy pipelines, improving system observability, and expanding our ability to process structured and unstructured data at scale
- Build and develop metrics around pipeline health, alerting, and monitoring systems with a key focus on improving operational resilience, reducing issue detection time, and enabling better downstream consumption of data
- Oversee incident management and data governance efforts, ensuring rapid response to outages and alignment with compliance and data governance standards
- Collaborate closely with Data Science, Analytics, DevOps, and Engineering partners to ensure seamless integration of data flows across the organization
- Help shape a roadmap for infrastructure maturity, capacity planning, and tech debt reduction that aligns with organizational priorities and platform strategy
What does success look like?
- Deliver effective, efficient, and secure real-time data streaming to enable data science team
- Design and implement foundational data infrastructure for all company’s real-time data that can be accessed effectively
- Enable Applied Science Team with real-time data streams to support strategic goals
- Transform the data platform into a production grade platform building scalable data workflows and pipelines, focusing on reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Transform the company on effective data generation and consumption
- Develop KPIs and better quality metrics to measure the performance and quality of data platform
- Redesign, build, and modernize the current data platform architecture into a production grade data platform
- Implement alerting and monitoring mechanisms to know status of data pipelines, with logging and reporting capabilities (observability & quality)
- Cleanup and improve existing critical metrics/data/pipelines
- Design and implement de-identification pipelines
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field
- 8+ years of proven experience as a data engineer
- 3+ years in managing data engineering teams
- Strong understanding of SQL and data modeling (i.e. Kimbal, Inmon, and Data Vault 2.0, etc.)
- Strong technical understanding of data engineering
- Strong management skills to win and lead the data engineering team
- Strong project management skills to define, scope and deliver business requirements on time
- Excellent communication skills to explain technical designs to non data engineers
- Strong hands-on experience to be part of the team
- Proven experience in building and maintaining modern scalable robust data architectures
- Proven ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical investments.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where requirements evolve.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Our Benefits
The anticipated salary range for this role is $180,000 - $205,000. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, education, and past performance. In addition to base salary, this position may also be eligible for a variable bonus and equity.
As leaders in redesigning behavioral health, we walk the walk with our employees' benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their lives and work.
Our benefits include:
- A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
- A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off per year
- Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in our medical plans to participate)
- Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA ($1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
- Employer-paid short-term, long-term disability, life & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to seven (7) weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period) should you need to use it.
- Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, which allows between 8-16 weeks of paid leave)
- 401K retirement plan with 100% matching which immediately vests on up to 4% of base salary
- Travel to Denver 1x a year for annual Shift gathering
- Fourteen (14) company holidays
- Company Shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance coverage, commuter benefits and more!
Application Deadline
This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled.
Equal Opportunity
SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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