Senior Manager, Database & Data Engineering
Company: BlackLine
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: June 22, 2022
Job Description:
Description It's fun to work in a company where people truly
believe in what they're doing! -At Blackline, we're committed to
bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise
applications. -Since being founded in 2001, -BlackLine -has become
a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls
the entire financial -close -process. Our vision is to modernize
the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational
effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering
innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance
leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance. -We're a
technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for
the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your
brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team
at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation. -Job
SummaryAs Senior Manager of Database Engineering, you will be
responsible for driving forward the vision, architecture, design,
implementation, optimization and tuning of BlackLine high-volume
transactional databases, OLTP modeling, Reporting and Analytics to
support our large scale, cloud-based, SaaS web and mobile
applications. You will lead, inspire, and inspire a team of
talented Database Engineers while working closely with Developers,
Architects, Product Managers and Cloud Operations. The ideal
candidate will have strong data infrastructure and data
architecture skills, a proven track record of leading and scaling
data teams, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and
speed, solid project management leadership, and a strong vision for
how Data Engineering can scale a global SaaS platform.We're looking
for people who not only have a strong hands-on technical experience
and interest, but who want to drive innovation in people
management, motivation, and growth. -If you are someone who strives
for excellence in all that they do, including helping those in your
team, and someone who wants to ultimately deliver the best value
and success you can, then we want to talk to
you.Responsibilities:
- Oversee design, development, and operations of
high-performance, massively scalable, always-available Cloud-based
data platform to support BlackLine SaaS.
- Develop inherently secure, reliable, scalable, and modular
access to Data.
- Drive visibility on key performance, throughput, availability,
and customer satisfaction metrics.
- Continually improve data platform architecture, data modeling
and data governance to match the growth of the business.
- Lead, inspire, and grow a globally distributed team of talented
engineers while aligning tightly with architects, software
engineers, product managers, and operations.
- Define and drive a unifying vision for teams and their
projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through
motivation, consensus building and leading change.
- Plan and manage timely delivery of high-quality releases while
keeping the stakeholders informed.
- Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on work
in your respective domain.
- Troubleshoot issues holistically, conduct root cause analysis
and implement corrective actions.
- On call for handling production releases and incidents, as
needed.
- Other duties as assigned.Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or
equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience in managing a team of DB engineers
working on design, development, and support of large-scale SaaS
with 8+ years of experience in your respective domain.
- Prior experience in hiring top-notch talent, talent
development, and mentoring.
- Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for
product excellence.
- Committed to providing exceptional service to customers and
support to staff members.
- Strong knowledge of relational DB systems (especially SQL
server and PostgreSQL), schema design, information architecture,
internal objects, optimization, performance tuning, monitoring, and
troubleshooting.
- Advanced understanding of OLTP and OLAP environments for high
volume transactions.
- Experience in designing data models using techniques such as
3NF, object-relational, entity-relationship, or dimensional
modeling.
- Ability to look "under the hood" to find bottlenecks in the
design/architecture and innovate.
- Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best
practices, including Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
(CI/CD).
- Strong understanding of business management, financial, and
leadership principles. - - Equal Employment Opportunity BlackLine
believes that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths, and
we do not tolerate discrimination. It is our policy to recruit,
hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and
all personnel actions, without regard to sex (including pregnancy,
childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), race,
natural hair, religion (including religious dress and grooming
practices), color, gender (including gender identity and gender
expression), national origin (including language use restrictions
and possession of a driver's license issued under Vehicle Code
section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical
condition, including HIV and AIDS, genetic information, marital
status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual
orientation, military and veteran status or any other basis
protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or
regulation. We're proud to continue to stand by this policy and
will grow our company with attention to this instrumental belief in
our hiring and promotion practices.We encourage applications from
all qualified candidates and will reasonably accommodate
applicants' needs in accordance with applicable law throughout all
stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you need a
reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or
application for employment, please contact us by sending an email
to [email -protected]
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