Harman International
Big Data - Platform Manager
Novi - Michigan, USA - Cabot Drive · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$125k-$184kDetected 30 days ago
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About the role
- We are looking for a Big Data Platform Manager to lead the development, operation, and continuous improvement of our enterprise Data & Analytics platform.
- This role is responsible for enabling data product teams, analysts, engineers, and business users to deliver high-quality data and analytics solutions efficiently, securely, and at scale.
- The role combines a strong technical understanding of modern data platforms with leadership, stakeholder management, product-oriented thinking, and the ability to manage a team of up to 5 platform engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap for the enterprise Data & Analytics platform, ensuring alignment with business priorities, data strategy, architecture standards, and security requirements.
- Define and manage platform capabilities that enable data product teams to build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate data solutions efficiently.
- Partner with data engineering, analytics, architecture, security, infrastructure, transformation and business teams to continuously improve the platform experience for developers as well as end users.
- Manage the D&A platform like a product-clear roadmap, backlog, users, and measurable outcomes
- E2E Platform operations ownership - Manage incidents, changes, SLAs, and ensure reliability at scale.
- Oversee platform support processes, incident management, service requests, change management, and operational monitoring.
- Lead the development of automated provisioning capabilities for D&A workspaces, environments, data product teams, and project resources.
- Apply a cost & value mindset to optimize Fabric capacity, Databricks usage, and overall platform cost vs. value.
- Develop platform capabilities that help data engineering and analytics teams work more efficiently, including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, code quality checks, and reusable templates.
- Ensure the platform supports data governance, access control, privacy, security, lineage, metadata management, and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in managing or leading Data & Analytics platforms, data engineering platforms, cloud platforms, or related technology services.
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture, including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, data pipelines, orchestration, and analytics tooling.
- Experience with MS Azure / MS Fabric cloud platforms and services.
- Experience with DevOps, DataOps, CI/CD (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions), infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, deployment automation, and monitoring practices.
- Experience with workspace or environment provisioning, role-based access control, and cloud cost management.
Compensation
- $ 125,250 - $ 183,700
- Salary Ranges:
Benefits
- Competitive wellness benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
Equal opportunity
- HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.
- Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.
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