Manager, Data Engineering

Ally Financial

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Detroit, MI
Salary
$110,000–$180,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

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This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$214,825 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $145k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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About Ally Financial

Ally Financial is a US-based digital financial services company offering online banking, auto financing, mortgage, and investment products. It is one of the largest all-digital banks in the United States.

Ally Financial currently has 22 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$180,000 across 22 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager, Data Engineering

The Manager - Data Engineering will lead a team of developers and analysts within the data technologies development and management space. This role involves managing software development life cycle tasks to design and deliver solutions for system integration, reporting, and support functions. Key responsibilities include performing technical analysis of interfaces and databases, gathering requirements, creating technical specifications, and managing vendor relationships. The position requires expertise in cloud-based data solutions on AWS, specifically using S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB. Candidates must possess skills in dbt, Qlik Replicate, InfoSphere DataStage, and CP4D, alongside proficiency in Python, SQL, and Data Vault modeling. The work focuses on building scalable, auditable data structures and pipelines to support enterprise analytics, reporting, and AI use cases within the insurance business data domain.

What you'll do

  • Manage a team of data technologies developers to deliver and maintain applications supporting Ally's operations.
  • Coordinate and oversee SDLC tasks to design and deliver solutions for system integration, reporting, and support.
  • Perform technical analysis of interfaces, files, databases, and reports to gather requirements and create specifications.
  • Design high-level and low-level system interfaces and define technology changes for the insurance data ecosystem.
  • Troubleshoot and support system interfaces while managing vendor relationships for incident resolution and enhancements.
  • Architect and optimize large-scale data ingestion, transformation, cleansing, and deduplication processes across complex environments.
  • Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data pipelines using Git, DevOps practices, and modern software engineering.
  • Embed data governance, metadata, lineage, and security practices into engineering solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent.
  • Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-based data solutions on AWS, including S3, AWS CLI, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
  • Strong experience with modern data engineering and integration tools such as dbt, Qlik Replicate, InfoSphere DataStage, and CP4D.
  • Deep expertise in data modeling, including Data Vault, and designing scalable, auditable, and resilient data structures.
  • Strong programming and automation skills in Python and other scripting languages.
  • Proven experience leading the design and implementation of enterprise data pipelines using Git, DevOps practices, and modern software engineering approaches.
  • 8+ years of data management and data analysis experience preferred; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems preferred (preferred); Insurance Business data domain knowledge is preferred (preferred).

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