Data Engineering Manager, Customer
DraftKings is looking for a Data Engineering Manager, Customer, to lead a team building scalable data solutions that power critical capabilities across the customer-focused organisation. This role combines people leadership with hands-on technical ownership, requiring the manager to develop talented Data Engineers while staying close to the code and shaping technical direction.
Working alongside Technical Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Delivery Managers, the successful candidate will strengthen the data foundations, reporting capabilities, and AI-enabled development practices that help teams move faster and make informed decisions. The role involves setting a high bar for accountability, engineering excellence, and consistent delivery across the team.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers, supporting career growth, performance, and a collaborative team culture.
- Guide the team in delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions across the customer domain while balancing speed, quality, and evolving business priorities.
- Advance AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices already embedded in the team’s workflow, using them to improve engineering efficiency and accelerate delivery.
- Stay hands-on with the codebase, provide architectural guidance, and help the team navigate complex technical challenges.
- Set technical standards that make data solutions scalable, testable, reliable, and high-performing.
- Lead technical design discussions and clearly communicate decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations through written and verbal communication.
- Build a healthy, accountable engineering culture grounded in open communication, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- At least 2 years of technical management experience, including direct people leadership, career development, coaching, and performance management (required).
- A strong Data Engineering background with hands-on SQL experience across data ingestion, transformation, and delivery (required).
- Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery (required).
- Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and Datadog (required).
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding workflows, including using multi-step AI development loops to build, test, and ship code (required).
- Technical depth paired with strong mentorship, team-building, and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences (required).
- Experience building or implementing a Customer 360 or Customer Data Platform (nice-to-have).
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities, take action, and continuously improve how your team delivers (required).
- US base salary range for this full-time position is 153,400.00 USD - 191,800.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing program including free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, Virtual Yoga Classes, and many more.
- 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
- Partnership with Care.com, a care finder and backup childcare partner for US employees.
- Support for family planning including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning.
- Flexible PTO for US employees.
- Pet insurance.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Financial planning support including 401(k) matching and Origin Financial programmes.
- Commuter benefits.
- Tuition reimbursement programme.
DraftKings Inc. is a leading American digital sports entertainment and gaming company, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2012, it started in daily fantasy sports and has grown into one of the largest US online sportsbook and iGaming operators. The company offers mobile sports betting, online casino and daily fantasy contests across regulated North American markets. DraftKings is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people.