Sr Manager Data Engineering at Dexcom in San Diego, California

Job Description:

About Dexcom:

Dexcom, Inc. empowers people to take control of diabetes through innovative continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has emerged as a leader of diabetes care technology. By listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, Dexcom simplifies and improves diabetes management around the world.

Summary:

Manages the activities of a Data Engineering software development team to ensure high availability and reliability of the company's products and internal processes. Interacts closely with all other functions, including product development, QA, project management, marketing, and sales to ensure clear understanding of business and technical needs and timely delivery on customer requirements. Has full operational responsibility of Data Engineering software performance, security, compliance, including testing, and documentation. Recruits, mentors, develops, and evaluates personnel ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the Data Engineering team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Has direct oversight and daily management of a Data Engineering software development team


• Sets attainable goals to team members on-time project delivery


• Oversees internal operations, and is responsible for installation, validation, and maintenance of internally used software solutions


• Works closely with other team leaders to ensure their needs are met timely in context of company and project goals and objectives


• Analyzes and investigates requests, prepares design specifications, and oversees resource allocation and execution


• Manages and implements internal process and performance monitoring tools and technologies


• Plans system capacity and maintenance in conjunction with the team and broader systems


• Cultivates and maintains a team and culture of high availability and responsiveness to address operational issues and emergent needs 24x7


• Responsible for ensuring that the team understands and complies with quality standards and requirements as documented.

Required Qualifications:

• Track record and passion for bringing high quality software development, with multiple projects simultaneously


• Detailed understanding and ability to program in Java

• Deep expertise in modern cloud and data center hosting environments, with emphasis in GCP


• Strong track record of management and leadership


• Experience with creating robust, scalable, and efficient data pipelines


• Knowledge of Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and managing an event driven platform


• Experience with database(s) (Casandra,Ndb, MySQL)


• Awareness of software security protocols, such as ISO27001, NIST and familiarity with implementation of security best practices is highly preferred


• Experience with medical technologies and HIPAA is big plus


• Ability to translate high-level requirements to a complete backlog of Jira stories


• Operating knowledge of Agile methodologies


• Collaborative leader with strong communication and planning skills


• Poised under pressure, with attention to detail and high commitment to customer satisfaction


• Typically requires minimum of 8 years related experience

Functional Description: Management

Manages the planning and delivery of data warehouse and storage architecture. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, and performing needs assessments. Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies, ensures the development of proper training and documentation for enterprise-wide technical architecture, systems use and maintenance, and planning and integrating next-generation technologies into the architectural strategy. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Functional/Business Knowledge:

• Knowledge and awareness spans all aspects of the specific functional area.


• Enhances understanding and knowledge of how functional objectives support corporate objectives.


• Possesses in‐depth knowledge of leading best practices in area of expertise.

Scope:

• Establishes operational objectives and work plans, and delegates assignments to team members / supporting employees.


• Provides guidance and support to team members / employees.


• Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.


• Requires the ability to effectively influence others and manage sensitive situations.

Judgement:

• Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in‐depth knowledge of organizational objectives.


• Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results will add to costs and may impact the short‐term goals of the organization.

Management:

• Manages activities of two or more sections or departments.


• Directly manages the coordination of the activities within a function/department with responsibility for results.


• In some instances may be responsible for a functional area or contracted / outsourced employees or matrixed reports and not have any direct reports within the organization.


• People management responsibilities include hiring / terminations, performance reviews, career development coaching and compensation decisions.

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree with 13+ years of industry experience.


• 5-8 years of previous people management experience.

• The Workplace Type for this role is Flex. Based on the nature of your position you will be working onsite approximately 2-3 days per week from collaborative space and hoteling desks at our Dexcom sites. You will need to be located within commuting distance (typically 75 miles/120km) of your assigned Dexcom site.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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