Senior Manager of Data Engineering

• Founded in 2015 ReUp Education is the only organization that focuses exclusively on helping colleges and universities engage and re-enroll the more than 40 million US residents who have “stopped out” and support them until graduation through our patented technology-enabled service. To date we have re-enrolled over 57000 students for our university partners.  As of July 2025 ReUp Education partners with 140 active schools and a total of 1.78 million learners.  To date ReUp Education has helped 7960 learners graduate. Today we build regional marketplaces to connect the supply of educational opportunities with the demand for skilled and credentialed workforce professionals.

About the role

• ReUp Education is looking for a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to help us empower more adult learners and educational institutions by leading a team that ingests transforms stores and provides access to the data powering our products and services. This is both a people leadership and technical delivery role ideal for someone who enjoys coaching engineers and doing hands-on work as needed in a fast-paced mission-driven environment. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to translate business client and learner requirements into technical solutions for a rapidly growing company.

What you'll do

• Lead manage and develop a team of data engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence independence collaboration and accountability.
• Create and execute a Data Engineering roadmap that helps ReUp to achieve its goals.
• Partner with technology analytics finance B2B and B2C teams to define data requirements and design and develop solutions that drive value for ReUp’s clients and learners.
• Oversee the design development testing implementation maintenance and continuous improvement of data pipelines and warehouses that ingest transform store and provide access to student and institutional data to power business intelligence products ML models cloud-based web applications and marketing and coaching services.
• Champion automation observability and performance to ensure ReUp’s pipeline efficiently and reliably delivers quality data to end users.
• Proactively identify triage and resolve data quality and availability issues through root-cause analysis remediation monitoring and cross-functional collaboration.
• Define and monitor SLAs for data quality workflow status and runtime incident response and resolution time and team velocity.
• Define and implement data engineering standards and best practices.
• Support data security compliance and governance initiatives.

Qualifications

Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. ReUp encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application.

• 8+ years of data engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing a high-performing data engineering team.
• Experience developing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and warehouses in a production environment.
• Strong fluency in SQL and Python.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms such as AWS and data warehouses such as Redshift or Snowflake.
• Experience working with orchestration tools such as Airflow and data integration tools such as Stitch or CData.
• Experience working with version control tools such as GitHub.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Mathematics or a related technical discipline.
• Strong communication collaboration and problem solving skills.
• • Nice to haves:
  • • Experience syncing data to and from Salesforce Iterable and/or cloud-based web applications.
    • Experience developing a curated data layer for data visualization tools such as Tableau.
    • Experience developing deploying and maintaining AI/ML models in production.
    • Experience with Agile engineering practices.
    • Experience working in higher education education technology and/or a startup.

Benefits

• Medical dental and vision insurance for employees
• • We pay 100% of the employee's premium and 50% of any dependents' premiums
  • Contribute up to $1000 to employee HSA/$2000 to employee + dependent HSA
  • PPO Buy-up plan available
  • FSA available
• Company paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance for employee
• Flexible time off and remote work opportunity
• Up to 80 hours of dedicated sick time annually to support your well-being and work-life balance
• 15 paid holidays per year (including Juneteenth and the last week of the calendar year)
• Company wellness days (2 per year)
• Day of Service (Paid day for volunteering)
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave (12 weeks primary parental leave 6 weeks secondary parental leave)
• A diverse team that fosters a high level of collaboration despite being highly distributed

• Hybrid: This hybrid role can combine the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration in our Austin TX office for 2-3 days per week and the flexibility of remote work.

REDEFINE THE POSSIBLE * INNOVATE WITH PURPOSE * RESILIENT BY DESIGN * ACHIEVE BEYOND EXPECTATIONS * THRIVE TOGETHER

At ReUp our values guide everything we do. We redefine the possible by bringing energy boldness and vision to every challenge breaking barriers and delivering outcomes that redefine success. We innovate with purpose developing impactful solutions that inspire our partners learners and teams—always rooted in balance authentic collaboration and integrity. We are resilient by design empowering learners teams and organizations to adapt grow and lead with strength in a changing world. We achieve beyond expectations by harnessing the power of data and evidence-based strategies to deliver measurable outsized results that create lasting impact for all stakeholders. And we thrive together believing that through collective action opportunities are not finite and limited but expandable creating an ecosystem of growth and collaboration.

ReUp Education is an equal-opportunity employer. Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin disability status protected veteran status or other characteristics to apply.

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship or work authorization transfers for this position. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

What We Do

Founded in 2015 ReUp Education is the only organization that focuses exclusively on helping colleges and universities engage and re-enroll the more than 40 million US residents who have "stopped out" and support them until graduation through our technology-enabled service. Today we build regional marketplaces to connect the supply of educational opportunities with the demand for skilled and credentialed workforce professionals.

Why Work With Us

Our power to help adult learners reach their goals lies firmly in the diverse talents perspectives and ideas of our people. We’re a prismatic crew with different backgrounds different opinions and different areas of expertise—united in our passion to expand success in higher education.

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