Engineering Manager, Engineering Data Platform Enablement

Nordstrom

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$166,000–$258,000 / yr
Posted
68 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $215k
This role $212k
$155k most similar roles pay here $269k

This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $174,900–$255,068 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $215k for comparable roles.

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About Nordstrom

Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail

Nordstrom currently has 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Engineering Data Platform Enablement

Engineering Manager: Engineering Data Platform Enablement serves as a player-coach within the Data Platform Enablement team, where you will manage engineering delivery, technical standards, and team growth while remaining hands-on with code and automation. You will oversee the reliability of BigQuery, Looker Core, Metabase, and AWS workloads while managing capacity planning, cost optimization, and the deprecation of legacy platforms like MicroStrategy and Tableau. Your role involves establishing LookML governance, managing enterprise access provisioning, and leading Conversational Analytics enablement strategies. To succeed, you must possess proficiency in Python, Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, alongside experience with GCP and AWS. You will utilize AI coding tools daily to streamline operations and investigate incidents while mentoring engineers on technical architecture and AI fluency within a high-scale data environment involving complex analytics and reporting systems.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 35 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead engineering delivery across BigQuery, Looker, Metabase, and AWS workloads.
  • Manage platform reliability, incident response, and on-call rotations for production systems.
  • Drive capacity planning by forecasting growth and managing cloud compute costs.
  • Oversee enterprise access provisioning, governance, and security policy definition.
  • Establish LookML governance, development standards, and deployment practices for Looker Core.
  • Lead the Conversational Analytics enablement strategy and manage token utilization.
  • Mentor engineers on technical architecture and AI fluency through hands-on coding.
  • Execute active software engineering tasks including writing code and performing pull request reviews.

What we're looking for

  • At least 2 years of experience leading engineering teams with accountability for delivery and people development.
  • At least 5 years of experience building software, platforms, infrastructure, or data systems.
  • Proficiency in Python for active, hands-on technical contribution and code writing.
  • Strong cloud experience across GCP and/or AWS including Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience managing enterprise access management programs at scale.
  • Proven ability to use AI coding tools daily to automate operations and write code.
  • Experience with data platforms such as BigQuery, Looker, Metabase, Tableau, or MicroStrategy.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud cost optimization at scale.

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