Data Engineering Manager, Sr

Overview

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance. 401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. Old National also offers a variety of Impact Network Groups led by team members who are passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and building inclusion across the organization.

We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

The Senior Data Engineering Manager leads a data engineering team within the Data Technology organization, overseeing the development and delivery of technical solutions that support the bank's data strategy. This leader sets vision and direction for their team's domain, ensures alignment with the Data Office and stakeholders across the bank and IT, and collaborates with other product owners and managers to deliver customer value. The Senior Data Engineering Manager guides and mentors data engineers, fosters a culture of innovation and excellence, and promotes best practices in data engineering and agile methodologies.

This role reports to the Chief Data Technology Officer and works closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Info Security, and Data Governance organizations.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years data Engineering (ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, and data integration solutions)
• 3+ years managing and leading data engineering teams (financial services/banking preferred)
• 3+ years cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Synapse Analytics, or equivalent)
• 3+ years technical product owner/product manager for data products, platforms, or solutions using Scrum or Kanban

Technical Skills

• Expertise in building scalable, reliable, and secure data solutions using modern data engineering approaches (metadata-driven, event-driven, and API-driven).
• Experience working with stakeholders on gathering requirements, defining user stories, and translating business needs into data solutions, with a focus on developing reusable and modular components.
• Experience in scripting tools such as Python, C#, or PowerShell.
• Experience in orchestration tools or job schedulers, such as Azure Data Factory, Airflow, or equivalent.
• Experience in data modeling, data quality, data governance, and data security standards and best practices.
• Experience in code repositories and version control tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, etc.
• Experience in analytical and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Strong T-SQL proficiency including complex stored procedures, user-defined functions, and query optimization.
• Plus: Experience with financial services data domains (e.g., customer, transaction, risk, or wealth data).

• Serve as the technical leader for the team's domain, providing architectural direction and ensuring technical excellence.
• Collaborate with product owners, managers, and stakeholders to define and deliver data solutions that drive customer value.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of data products, platforms, or services within the team's scope.
• Ensure quality, reliability, scalability, and security of delivered solutions.
• Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practices, and guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data architecture and governance frameworks.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data and technical issues within the team's domain.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to data engineers.
• Foster a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Position may require travel to other branch or meeting locations.

• Lead and manage the data engineering team including hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention.
• Define and communicate the team's vision, roadmap, and backlog in alignment with the Data Technology organization's strategy.
• Ensure alignment with the Data Office and other stakeholders across the bank.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to develop team capabilities.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Define and execute a data engineering strategy supporting the bank's data vision and goals.
• Align with enterprise data architecture and governance frameworks.

• Manage end-to-end delivery of data solutions, from ideation to deployment and ongoing support.
• Apply agile and lean principles and practices (Scrum, Kanban).
• Establish and enforce standards, best practices, and guidelines within the team's domain.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data architecture and governance frameworks.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure data quality and security across all team deliverables.

• Stay abreast of latest trends and technologies in data engineering, cloud platforms, and the team's domain area.
• Evaluate and recommend new solutions, tools, and approaches.
• Demonstrate technical passion and curiosity to explore and adopt new technologies.
• Prepare and present data engineering reports, dashboards, and metrics to senior leadership and business partners.

• Develops Talent – Advocates for talent development as an organizational imperative and develops people according to talent strategy needs cultivating a diverse succession “pipeline”. Continuously assesses talent across the bank to develop an understanding of capabilities and potential and leverages talent as a corporate resource to meet needs today and into the future. Cultivates an environment of trust and optimizes others' talents and capabilities across the organization, driving a culture of continuous coaching and feedback. Retains, attracts and recruits top diverse talent leveraging opportunistic hires to meet current and future people needs at Old National.
• Promotes Change – Explains the business need, impact, and anticipated benefits of the change while engaging stakeholders to gain buy-in. Shapes and transforms culture by building an organizational culture of change agility. Manages risk associated with the change through appropriate contingency planning. Promotes change where it is needed to stay relevant and successful while creating conditions for team members to creatively generate new ways to enhance Old National's ability to succeed.
• Strategy in Action – Develops, communicates, and aligns organization with a clear vision and strategy empowering team members to take action. Maintains a strong network of advisors and leverages resources to stay current on emerging trends and market factors that may influence ONB’s strategy. Envisions how Old National's responses to trends may impact our longer-term vision and strategy while formulating a clear strategy that will accelerate ONB towards its strategic goals. Challenges the status quo to develop new ways of thinking encouraging curiosity beyond the current state. Conveys opportunities to realize the organization’s purpose, strategy, and culture in a way that captures attention, arouses emotion and compels others to act despite obstacles.
• Compelling Communication – Conveys transparent messages logically, simply, succinctly and at the right pace while being in command of the message. Captivates audience through compelling language tailored to the audience’s expectations and communication style. Checks for understanding and presents messages in different ways to enhance receiver’s understanding. Listens and objectively considers others’ ideas and perspectives while encouraging others to do the same while addressing negative reactions to others’ ideas that jeopardize this open exchange.
• Makes Decisions & Solves Problems – Analyzes, contrasts, combines and compares data to define the most relevant organizational problems and opportunities and gain clarity on potential impact. Creates sound strategies by gathering information through listening, deep questions, challenging assumptions and collaborating with networks in and outside of Old National. Aligns efforts and resources around blue chips and formulates decisions on relevant factors (e.g., costs, benefits, buy-in, risks) with the greatest potential for positive impact. Sets strategic direction for short-and long-term goals while remaining agile to adjust plans to close current gaps, modifying priorities as circumstances change.

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have an agreement signed by the Director of Talent Acquisition, SVP, to fill a specific position.

Our culture is firmly rooted in our core values.

We are optimistic. We are collaborative. We are inclusive. We are agile. We are ethical.

We are Old National Bank. Join our team!

The salary range for this position is $98,400/yr - $199,000/yr plus bonus. The base salary indicated for this position reflects the compensation range applicable to all levels of the role across the United States. Actual salary offers within this range may vary based on a number of factors, including the specific responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s relevant skills and professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location.

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