Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital

Other Engineering
United States
Posted on Friday, May 31, 2024
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
The mission of the data platform engineering Manager is to architect and maintain a secure, scalable data platform that maintains high levels of data integrity and privacy. As the engineering manager you will be empowering the organization to leverage data assets safely and efficiently. By providing actionable insights and driving informed decision making, fostering a cluster of data driven excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance within all data security regulatory frameworks.
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Technical Skills:

  • Drive projects that expand availability to data sets that impact business outcomes.
  • Build secure data pipelines to ETL operational data into data warehouses and enable teams to leverage the data.
  • Create infrastructure and tooling to deliver flexible data sets that the business depends upon.
  • Build & manage infrastructure and access to data.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

  • You lead a team of Engineers and take responsibility for their quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, impact, and growth.
  • Be a mentor and advisor, providing coaching and feedback which levels up all those on your team.

Organizational Knowledge:

  • Take ownership over the quality of execution, timeliness of delivery, processes, impact and personal and professional growth for a single team.
  • Be the Product Manager for the team to define what investments in our data platform architecture should be made, ensuring harmony between our product plans, the bandwidth of the team, the realities of the technical landscape and your plans for the growth and structure of the team.

Communication and Influence

  • Work with other engineering managers, product management, people/recruiting, and the rest of engineering to drive team growth, retention, and hiring moving forward.
  • Have a material influence on not only what Anchorage builds, but who builds it, taking ownership for the growth planning, recruiting and performance management of a team of Engineers.

You may be a fit for this role if:

  • You have experience processing a variety of data sources: SQL, PubSub, API-based, Event-sourced state, among others.
  • Expertise in translating business use cases into data models to support analysis.
  • You have demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and data services (GCP, AWS, Azure, et al) and data tooling.
  • A proven track record of delivering results that impact the business.
  • The ability to move quickly and pivot as business needs and conditions change.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

  • When you learned that starfish can regrow severed limbs, you thought can my star schema be as resilient?
  • You have experience implementing Data Governance policies.
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.