Manager, Data Platform
ZoomInfo · Remote
About this role
## ZoomInfo — Manager, Data Platform ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. We’re seeking an experienced **Manager, Data Platform** to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our modern data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, operational systems, and AI-enabled applications. You’ll be a senior member of the larger AI, Data and Innovation organization, responsible for designing and expanding enterprise-level data infrastructure that enables ZoomInfo’s internal teams to interact with data comprehensively. ### What you’ll do **Technical Strategy & Architecture** - Define and evolve the vision, roadmap, and technical strategy for the data platform. - Own architectural decisions across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, serving, governance, and observability. - Establish engineering standards and patterns for pipelines, data contracts, infrastructure, and deployment. - Evaluate technologies, vendors, and architectural approaches in partnership with stakeholders. - Remain hands-on in critical technical initiatives, architecture reviews, prototyping, and complex troubleshooting. **People Leadership & Management** - Manage, mentor, and develop a team of data platform engineers. - Set clear expectations around technical execution, ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence. - Support career growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance management. - Participate in hiring, onboarding, interviewing, and team capacity planning. - Partner with leadership to define team structure, priorities, and long-term capability needs. **Platform Delivery & Operations** - Oversee the development and maintenance of reliable, scalable data pipelines and workflows. - Establish service-level objectives (SLOs), data quality standards, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices. - Drive platform migrations and modernization efforts with a focus on incremental delivery and risk reduction. - Reduce operational toil through automation, self-service capabilities, and standardized infrastructure. **Security, Governance & Data Contracts** - Establish appropriate access controls, data protection mechanisms, and security practices for sensitive data. - Define and promote data contracts and clear ownership boundaries between source systems, data platforms, and downstream consumers. - Improve data discoverability, lineage, and trust across the organization. - Ensure platform architecture supports secure access for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. **Cross-Functional Collaboration** - Partner with application engineering, analytics engineering, data science, product, security, and infrastructure teams. - Translate stakeholder needs into clear technical requirements and prioritized initiatives. - Communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences. ### What you’ll bring **Required Qualifications** - 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or data architecture. - 2+ years of experience managing, mentoring, or leading data engineering teams. - Demonstrated experience designing and operating production-grade data platforms and cloud architectures. - Strong experience with data orchestration, transformation frameworks, and pipeline development. - Strong understanding of data security, access controls, governance, and data contracts. - Prov
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