WORK AT PURCHASING POWER

Position: Manager, Data Engineering
Location: Atlanta/Hybrid work model
Who Are We: Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)
We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility.
The Opportunity: The Manager of Data Engineering will lead our data platform team in building and scaling enterprise-grade streaming data architectures. You will be a technical leader with deep expertise in the Confluent platform, Apache Kafka, and modern data engineering practices. This role will be responsible for managing a team of data engineers while driving the strategic direction of our real-time data infrastructure.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU WILL BRING:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field
• 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams
• 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience with distributed systems
• Deep expertise in Confluent Platform including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Control Center
• Proficiency in Kafka cluster sizing, scaling, and performance optimization
• Advanced proficiency in Apache Kafka: stream processing, topic design, partitioning strategies, consumer groups, and performance tuning
• Extensive experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration, DAG development, and pipeline monitoring
• Expert-level skills in PySpark for large-scale data processing, performance optimization, and cluster management
• Strong communication skills for working with technical and business stakeholders
• Proven experience designing event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines