Workiva
Senior Engineering Manager- Data
Remote Senior Engineering Manager role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 19, 2026
Eligible countries64 accepted countries
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Role overview
Senior Engineering Manager- Data
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You’ll Do
- Develop, communicate, and execute the long-term strategic objectives for Workiva’s multi-tenant data platform sub-function, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide objectives
- Partner closely with senior functional managers and establish exposure with Operational Leaders to align the platform with corporate compliance, security, and governance standards
- Exercise independent judgment to establish sub-function policies and practices that drive long-term engineering success and reduce system friction
- Formulate and deliver persuasive, data-backed recommendations to influence and inform decision-making at the Director and Senior Director levels
- Maintain a deep awareness of global nuances across your distributed US and European teams, adapting your messaging and leadership style to drive consistent execution
What You’ll Do
- Own the architectural direction, scaling, and continuous improvement of the platform’s ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across highly ambiguous technical landscapes
- Tackle complex, high-impact problems where data analysis requires evaluating intangible factors and balancing short- and long-term business trade-offs
- Accountable for sub-functional operational excellence, including cost transparency mechanisms, observability, and infrastructure optimizations that prevent critical operational delays
- Anticipate future enterprise scaling vectors to drive platform capabilities supporting advanced analytics, AI/ML pipelines, and external-facing data products
Multi-Team Building & Leadership Modeling
- Directly and indirectly manage a high-performing, distributed sub-function comprising multiple engineering squads, providing strong leadership examples for the broader organization
- Assume full people management responsibility for your sub-function, including workforce planning, hiring, talent retention, annual performance evaluations, and compensation reviews
- Focus on leadership development by actively mentoring, coaching, and supervising entry-level engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Foster an inclusive culture of accountability and high ownership where distributed engineering teams are empowered to solve systemic data problems
Execution & High-Impact Delivery
- Translate high-level enterprise strategy into actionable multi-team roadmaps, ensuring your direct-report managers are aligned on milestone delivery
- Ensure the continuous improvement of self-service capabilities that allow application teams to innovate rapidly and securely without bottlenecking on core data infrastructure
- Set and track rigorous sub-functional KPIs around platform adoption, resilience, system availability, and customer outcomes
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related engineering experience, OR Master’s degree with 6+ years, OR PhD with 4+ years of related experience
- Management Experience: 3+ years of direct people management experience, specifically including the supervisory experience of entry-level engineering managers and/or leading multiple concurrent engineering squads
- Scope: Demonstrated experience owning an engineering sub-function or multi-team domain in a high-growth, production-grade environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven track record of scaling distributed global engineering teams (US and EMEA), managing the complexities of varying time zones and cultural nuances
- Deep technical expertise in modern data platform components: ingestion frameworks (e.g., DLT, Kafka), transformation tools (e.g., dbt), and enterprise serving layers (e.g., Snowflake)
- Strong capability to navigate high ambiguity and make metrics-driven decisions when faced with intangible or conflicting business factors
- Exceptional persuasive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of successfully influencing Director-level business and technical leaders
- Full lifecycle people management experience, including handling performance corrections, organizational design, and compensation planning
Travel Requirements & Working Conditions
- 25% travel for global team jams and internal leadership meetings
- Reliable internet access for remote work deployment
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