Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DraftKings Inc. is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in Boston and operating as a regulated gaming company. The Data Engineering Manager, Customer will lead and develop a team of Data Engineers while remaining hands-on with technical architecture and code. The role focuses on scalable customer-domain data solutions, reporting capabilities, AI-enabled development practices, and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers, supporting career growth, performance, and a collaborative team culture
- Guide your team in delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions across the customer domain while balancing speed, quality, and evolving business priorities
- Advance AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices already embedded in the team’s workflow, using them to improve engineering efficiency and accelerate delivery
- Stay hands-on with the codebase, provide architectural guidance, and help your team navigate complex technical challenges
- Set technical standards that make data solutions scalable, testable, reliable, and high-performing
- Lead technical design discussions and clearly communicate decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations through written and verbal communication
- Build a healthy, accountable engineering culture grounded in open communication, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
Skills
- At least 2 years of technical management experience, including direct people leadership, career development, coaching, and performance management
- A strong Data Engineering background with hands-on SQL experience across data ingestion, transformation, and delivery
- Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery
- Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and Datadog
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding workflows, including using multi-step AI development loops to build, test, and ship code beyond AI-assisted autocomplete
- Technical depth paired with strong mentorship, team-building, and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities, take action, and continuously improve how your team delivers
- As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment
- Experience building or implementing a Customer 360 or Customer Data Platform is a plus
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
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