Technical Manager, Analytics Engineering

Ibotta is looking for a Technical Manager, Analytics Engineering to join our fast growing team! This role will build and lead a team of data engineers, oversee critical partner facing data, and help scale data & analytics products for internal and external partners. This team is central to delivering and maintaining our modern data, analytics, and decisioning platform across Ibotta. The ideal candidate will have curiosity, experience building and maintaining productionized data assets, the desire to serve as a leader across the department, and willingness to jump in and work side by side with your team to unblock and support as needed. You will also be responsible for working closely with cross-functional leaders to define and execute on your team roadmaps.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado, as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you’ll be doing:

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & Advocate for Savers

• Work with cross functional leadership to understand business needs and prioritize the most impactful projects to drive business decisions and strategic outcomes

• Build and retain a team of highly motivated analytics engineers. 

• Constantly speak to stakeholders about prioritization of key projects, rigorously revisit priorities, and confidently represent the effort required to deliver on initiatives

• Establish automated processes to scale data usage across Ibotta, and treat our data assets as software that continuously evolves and improves to meet business needs

• Serve as a leader across the department, bringing data, analytics, operational and culture building best practices to the organization

• Support the engineering of distributed systems, frameworks, and design patterns enabling efficient usage of Ibotta's data platform

• Support the team in identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater reliability and performance

• Evangelize engineering best practices and supporting capabilities with Analytics and Leadership teams, help cultivate a strong engineering mindset in Ibotta’s Analytics organization

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in building/implementing data pipelines using Databricks or other cloud-based data processing platforms

• 2+ years of management experience with experience working directly with senior leadership

• Experience hiring, leading, developing, and retaining talent

• Proven written and verbal communication skills, able to distill complex analytical requirements into actionable units of work

• Curiosity and the commitment to continually ask questions of our data and business

• Passion for well-architected software and strong engineering principles

• Excels in a fast-paced environment with the capability to prioritize effectively

• Preferred experience with event-driven architecture design patterns and practices

• Experience in database design principles supported by strong SQL abilities

• Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, and  metadata

• Experience with some or all of the following:

  • End-to-end analytics automation, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and tools (AWS Glue, DBT, Airflow, etc.)

  • Databricks or other cloud-based data processing platforms

  • AWS Cloud Services; EC2, S3

  • Apache Spark and its supported languages Python, SQL, or Scala 

  • Open table format Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi

  • Github, GitLab, or other version control & CI/CD platform 

  • Jira or other project management platform

• Agile (Kanban or Scrum) development experience

About Ibotta ("I bought a...")

Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned over $1.8 billion through the IPN since 2012. The largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado, Ibotta is headquartered in Denver, and is continually listed as a top place to work by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

  Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, profit sharing and equity.

• Base compensation range: $124,000 - $144,000. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base salary.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels. 

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