Wilbur Ellis

Wilbur Ellis

Data Engineering Manager II - Denver

Denver, Colorado, United States · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$133k-$186kDetected 16 days ago
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About the role

  • This role oversees the Data Solutions team, setting standards for modern data engineering, development, and applied AI/ML best practices.
  • Hands-on technical leadership is expected as it is needed to ensure quality, performance, and timely delivery.
  • Strong expertise in data modeling, including conceptual, logical, and dimensional (star/snowflake) schemas

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business and functional leaders to identify high-value data engineering, development, and AI opportunities.
  • Lead CI/CD practices for data engineering using Azure DevOps and Agile methodologies; manage sprint planning and execution.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams.
  • Guide the team across the full lifecycle from requirements and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and support.
  • This role partners closely with business, product, analytics, and IT leaders to identify, define, and deliver scalable data and AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

  • You have demonstrated people leadership with a strong commitment to coaching, mentoring, and performance development
  • You communicate clearly and effectively, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to business and executive audiences
  • You are highly motivated, organized, detail-oriented, and outcome-focused
  • You can communicate effectively through written documentation, presentations, and executive updates
  • 5+ years of experience in a developer or data engineering role, with strong exposure to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and data platform delivery
  • 5+ years of experience leading and developing technical teams, with a background in cloud data platform design, development, and implementation

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of experience with DW/BI and cloud data technologies (Snowflake strongly preferred)

Skills

  • Diversity of people, cultures, opinions, and ideas makes us all stronger.
  • Wilbur-Ellis is a company you can be proud to call your employer
  • Wilbur-Ellis markets and distributes agricultural products, animal feed specialty chemicals, and food ingredients.
  • Wilbur-Ellis is for and about people
  • Wilbur-Ellis has enjoyed over 100 years of success and growth, all thanks to our people.
  • Wilbur-Ellis invests in the industry's best workforce
  • Follow our career social media accounts!

Compensation

  • Please note that salary ranges provided for this role on external job boards are salary estimates made by outside parties and may not be accurate.

Benefits

  • Our employees are both leaders and team players who thrive on creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and a dedication to quality work, our customers, and each other.
  • Wilbur-Ellis invests heavily in our employees by offering skill development and training, competitive compensation and benefits, and a tradition of promoting from within for a broad range of career opportunities.
  • Lead the data and AI engineering solutions team of 5-10 people with a clear strategic vision aligned to enterprise data, development, and AI roadmaps.
  • Drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities, including advanced analytics, machine learning models, and generative AI solutions where appropriate.

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