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Blue Origin LLC Sr Manager, Operational Data Enablement in Seattle, Washington
At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Operational Data Enablement team that enables the use of data in decision making across the company from engineering to flight operations and more. This position will be responsible for developing the roadmap and implementation of data products to connect the enterprise and allow cross-domain operational data products for Blue Origin. This position requires a technical leader with the ability to lead technical teams and partner with sister teams and customers. Experience building event driven systems, deep knowledge of public clouds, serverless compute, kubernetes, CI/CD, data fabric, metadata management and spark computing are vital for this role. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Join our team and help Blue Origin use data to build a road to space! Responsibilities: Lead and mentor an experienced team of Data Engineers and Software Developers to build, integrate and scale operational data products to solve tough business problems Passionate about data quality and trust Build and scale our operational data platform to work for more users in more ways Work with practitioners and customers to develop new ways to federate analysis, operational application development and enable a "shift left" philosophy to data ownership Define and manage incident management, customer communications, RCAs and implement mitigation strategies for data products Operate our enterprise data lakehouse for the organization to support business analytics, data science and adhoc analysis Be a center of excellence for the data engineering and data ops practices at Blue Origin Work with Data Governance and Cyber Security to ensure data models are implemented in a secure and ethical manner Monitor, analyze and report on the performance of the platform, identifying areas for improvement and making data-driven decisions to optimize the platform's performance and return on investment. Qualifications: 5+ years of experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language 3+ years of people management experience Experience having built part of a modern data lakehouse stack, from design to production code Experience hiring top talent and driving career growth for early-in-career and senior engineers The ability to set ambitious goals with measur