- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Customer Success
- Posted
- Sep 24, 2026
- Salary
- $180,000–$270,000 a year
Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data (R6103)
Job description
The Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data is responsible for leading delivery across Shield AI’s Enterprise Data team as the organization enables business domains onto its governed Databricks data platform.
This role manages the engineers and delivery work required to turn enterprise data strategy into usable, reliable data products. The Sr. Manager will establish effective delivery rhythms, guide domain prioritization, manage capacity and dependencies, and ensure that business needs are translated into clear, appropriately scoped work for the Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Domain Enablement, and Data Governance functions.
The role requires substantial data and analytics depth to assess…
Job responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Enterprise Data delivery team, including Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Domain Enablement Engineers, and Data Governance specialists.
- Establish clear delivery operating rhythms for planning, prioritization, capacity management, roadmap tracking, dependency management, risk escalation, and stakeholder communication.
- Turn enterprise data strategy and business-domain priorities into sequenced, achievable delivery plans across platform onboarding, source integration, data-product delivery, semantic enablement, and governance.
- Partner with business leaders and domain stakeholders to shape intake, clarify intended outcomes, assess readiness, prioritize use cases, and establish realistic delivery expectations.
- Ensure domain work is appropriately scoped and sequenced, balancing near-term business value with the need for durable, governed, reusable data foundations.
- Coordinate delivery across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Domain Enablement, and Data Governance; resolve dependencies and escalate decisions that require platform, architecture, security, infrastructure, or…
- Ensure team outputs meet expectations for production readiness, data quality, documentation, ownership, lineage, security, access controls, and maintainability.
- Review delivery plans, technical approaches, risks, and tradeoffs with technical leads; challenge work that creates unnecessary duplication, ungoverned data assets, or unsustainable operational burden.
Job requirements
- 12+ years of experience across data engineering, analytics engineering, BI/data platforms, data architecture, or related technical data disciplines.
- 3+ years of experience leading and developing technical teams responsible for data, analytics, data products, or data-platform delivery.
- Demonstrated success leading delivery across multiple business domains and balancing competing stakeholder priorities.
- Strong understanding of modern data-platform concepts, including lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, Bronze/Silver/Gold patterns, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, data quality, metadata, lineage, and governed…
- Ability to assess and challenge technical delivery approaches without needing to be the primary hands-on implementer for every solution.
- Experience translating business priorities into outcome-oriented roadmaps, scoped delivery plans, and realistic sequencing decisions.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders, software engineering, cloud/infrastructure, security, governance, and architecture functions.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with incomplete information and competing demands.
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