Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

The posting, as Built Technologies wrote it

Built's Mission: Connect and simplify doing business in real estate.

Built is the AI-powered platform transforming the way real estate is financed, developed, and managed. Purpose-built for real estate and construction, Built began by fixing construction draw management for lenders and has grown into a comprehensive operating system addressing some of the industry’s most complex challenges. Today, Built is a partner to more than 350 lenders, over 80,000 borrowers and owners, and thousands of contractors, powering 86,000 active projects valued at more than $300 billion. Learn more at getbuilt.com .
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Built is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Data to lead our growing data organization. In this role, you will guide a high-impact group of engineers building the industry's first holistic real estate data engine that powers analytics, decisioning, workflow automation, and new product capabilities across our platform. You will lead the data engineering team responsible for building and operating foundational data capabilities across Built, including ingestion, modeling, governance, reliability, and self-serve analytics. Your team will enable product teams and business stakeholders to confidently use data to drive outcomes, while maintaining high standards for security, quality, and performance. This is a hands-on, player-coach leader who can set technical direction, grow talent, and deliver durable systems at scale, while partnering closely with Product, Analytics, and Engineering peers.

This is an opportunity to lead a team building core infrastructure that shapes the company's future. You will influence how Built captures, normalizes, and activates the most critical data in our industry, with autonomy, executive visibility, and room to innovate. If you enjoy building platforms, raising engineering maturity, and scaling both teams and systems, this role sits at that intersection.

Challenge

Real estate finance data is complex. It is high-volume, multi-source, time-sensitive, and often messy. The challenge is to build a data engine that is:

• Trusted: accurate, governed, explainable
• Fast: optimized performance and cost, low latency where it matters
• Composable: clean models that scale with new products
• Self-serve: enables Product, Analytics, and GTM teams
• Reliable: observable, resilient, and operationally excellent

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the team

• Coach engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career development
• Hire and retain top talent and build a high-performance, inclusive culture
• Establish strong delivery and operational rituals, including planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews

Own the data platform strategy

• Define and evolve the architecture for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, and data products
• Drive a roadmap that balances foundational platform investments with product delivery needs
• Champion best practices, including dbt p

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