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Join OCLC as a Senior Technical Manager to lead the transformation of our data platforms, focusing on operational excellence, team leadership, and modernization of our big data infrastructure.

Responsibilities: Manage and mentor a team of data platform engineers, oversee operations, drive strategic transitions, optimize Snowflake usage, and implement best practices in governance and compliance.

Skills: Expertise in Snowflake, strong understanding of distributed data architectures, experience with major data platform transitions, and proficiency in operational management.

Qualifications: 5+ years in managing infrastructure software and data platforms, experience with Linux systems and multi-petabyte environments, management of senior technical teams, and familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Location: Corporate Office in Dublin, United States of America

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $130,000 - $180,000.

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The Job Details are as follows:

This role is perfect for a strong technical leader who can balance day-to-day operational excellence, team leadership, and long-term strategic transformation. If you thrive on driving change while ensuring the stability and efficiency of big data platforms, we want to hear from you.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Manager to lead our data platform and operations team through a major transformation. This is a unique opportunity to drive the evolution of our large-scale data infrastructure, overseeing both daily operations and long-term strategic shifts. You will play a key role in transitioning away from legacy platforms, modernizing our data ecosystem, and optimizing Hadoop and Snowflake operations while managing and mentoring a team of experienced engineers.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of senior data platform engineers, providing mentorship, performance management, and career development.
• Oversee operational excellence in data platform management, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Snowflake, Kafka, and on-prem big data environments.
• Drive the strategic transition from Hadoop/HBase to a new data platform by defining roadmaps, collaborating with leadership, and guiding development teams through application migrations.
• Optimize and expand Snowflake usage across the organization, ensuring best practices in cost management, security, performance tuning, and governance.
• Partner with software engineering and data teams to align on new data architectures and migration strategies.
• Establish and enforce operational standards, automation, and monitoring to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Advocate for and implement best practices in data governance, security, and compliance.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience managing and leading a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake administration, operations, and optimization at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed data architectures, large-scale data storage, and data processing frameworks.
• Experience leading teams through major data platform transitions and application migrations.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on operational execution.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills to drive change across engineering teams.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience leading teams through Hadoop/HBase decommissioning.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kafka, Spark, and enterprise-scale data pipelines.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in managing and architecting infrastructure software components and/or data platform technologies.
• Previous experience in infrastructure design and support of Linux systems, preferably with Hadoop and/or database technologies.
• 5+ years of management experience, including managing senior administrators, developers, and architects.
• Prior experience managing multi-petabyte data environments in hybrid or on-prem settings.
• Broad exposure to various computer concepts, machine architecture, and analysis and design approaches.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across organizational boundaries.
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies.
• Experience in operational management of enterprise production systems.

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.