Sr Data Engineering Manager

Location: Campbell, CA

Department: Information Technology

• Design and own a modern, semantic data platform that connects key business systems—ERP, CRM, marketing technologies, contract/legal management software, purchasing, quality management, and business intelligence (e.g., tools such as QAD, Salesforce, HubSpot, Agiloft, Coupa, Propel, and Tableau)—together with unstructured and flat-file content, into a unified and governed data layer.
• Evaluate and select the target architecture, weighing a semantic / knowledge-graph approach that connects data largely in place against a medallion / star-schema warehouse, and define the roadmap, build-vs-virtualize decisions, and total cost of ownership.
• Build and maintain the knowledge graph and semantic layer using modern graph, semantic, and data-integration tooling (e.g., tools such as knowledge-graph platforms and data-sync / virtualization tools), enabling bi-directional sync, data cleansing, and master / reference data alignment.
• Implement enterprise data security and governance using role- and attribute-based access control (RBAC / ABAC), along with data lineage, quality, and stewardship controls appropriate to a regulated environment.

• Serve initially as the hands-on builder—designing, prototyping, and deploying production AI agents and intelligent workflows that connect systems to actions and insights.
• Build agent capabilities including tool / function calling, context and memory management, multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Implement prompt-engineering and reasoning strategies, validate value through measurable outcomes, and iterate rapidly from pilot to production.
• Partner with managed-service providers (MSPs) and vendors to scale agent development and workflow automation across business processes.

• Empower business teams to self-serve analytics by providing the foundation of data, standards, and support that distributed report developers need.
• Enable the business to build their own report and support data governance efforts. Where needed, lead the buildout of selected high-value reports directly.
• Collaborate with data and analytics teams to improve data reporting, forecasting, and decision-support capabilities.

• Act as an AI thought leader and change agent—driving adoption, educating stakeholders, and promoting a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making.
• Translate fluently between technical and non-technical audiences and drive alignment across IT, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Quality.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and mentoring as the capability scales.

• Ensure solutions meet compliance and security expectations and are designed for scalability from the outset.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, or a related discipline and a minimum of 12 years of experience in data engineering / architecture, applied AI / ML, or enterprise application development; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Demonstrated experience architecting modern data platforms—semantic layer and knowledge graph, and / or medallion / lakehouse—and integrating heterogeneous enterprise source systems and unstructured content.
• Experience should include a minimum of 2 years of progressive recent, hands-on experience building production generative-AI and agentic solutions (LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, orchestration, tool / function calling).
• Knowledge of data governance and security models, including RBAC / ABAC, and of bi-directional data sync and data-cleansing patterns.
• Proven ability to deliver pilots and proofs-of-concept end-to-end and scale them into production.
• Experience in or alongside regulated environments—GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, computer system validation (CSV / CSA), GAMP 5, and HIPAA—strongly preferred.
• Cloud infrastructure hands-on knowledge; experience managing vendors / MSPs (SOWs, licensing, budgets) preferred.
• Effective communicator across technical and business audiences.

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