Manager, Engineering- Data Ingestion

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What We Do

We are building the predictive analytics platform to make the world more productive, reliable, safe and secure. We take data from an expanding range of industries and combine our strengths in data science and software development to deliver solutions with actionable insights to companies worldwide. This creates quantifiable efficiencies for businesses, and dynamic challenges for us.

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager for the Customer Success Organization, you will deliver amazing user experiences and predictive functionality to our solutions. The goal of the Customer Success organization is to create a delightful customer experience and deliver business outcomes for customers through value added services leveraging Uptake’s platform, applications and partner ecosystem. You will directly manage a technical team focused on data ingestion, be responsible for team process improvements and optimization, and manage resources. You will execute with an emphasis on how to connect to new and existing data sources, ingest and process data, and automate data ingestion. This candidate inspires and motivates others and loves to win.

The Data Ingestion team is responsible for developing data connector applications which support the on-boarding of client data onto the Uptake platform, feature enhancements, and break-fix emergency release engineering.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage a world-class development team: lead technical vision, perform HR-related, performance management, and interpersonal communication duties
  • Collaborate with solutions management team and senior technical staff to meet deliverables timeframe
  • Coordinate development projects with other teams and managers
  • Work alongside project architects to ensure best practices and strategic goals are incorporated into development work
  • Provide regular progress, roadblock and opportunity reports to senior management
  • Ensure the team provides a high degree of quality by providing maximum uptime for client data ingestion and meeting key project delivery dates

Qualifications:

Required:

  • BS in computer science or related field (preferred)
  • 3+ years of management experience
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead Agile Scrum teams
  • Familiarity with test-driven development and best practices
  • Prior experience leading teams using Javascript, Node.JS, Angular, React, or Vue.JS
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Startup experience (preferred)
  • Highly self-motivated with strong analytical problem-solving skills
  • Curiosity and eagerness to learn and improve on existing approaches
  • Strong understanding of concepts and technologies behind big data and predictive analytics, predictive maintenance and the Industrial Internet of Things (preferred)

Preferred:

  • Understanding of structure and usage of REST API’s and their integration with ETL process
  • Experience with analytical tools, databases and methodologies

Why Work Here

We build and deliver, then explore to build more. Curiosity and flexibility enable everything we do, and we get stronger as we make each new industry smarter. As a team, we bring our diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences to solve problems no one has yet to solve, at a speed no one has yet to experience. We support and challenge one another to bring out a new best in each of us, and we might have a little fun along the way.

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Location

We are located in River North just right off the Chicago Brown Line stop. We also provide you with a free shuttle service to/from Ogilvie and Union.

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