Senior Manager of Data Engineering, Splunk
$145-249.2k
+ Incentive compensation. Salary dependent on location.
Data security & observability platform
Be an early applicant
Data security & observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$145-249.2k
+ Incentive compensation. Salary dependent on location.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To allow clients to focus on the business outcomes that data can deliver by helping organisations use their data to answer questions, take actions, and achieve business objectives
Role
Who you are
- We look for leaders who can partner with cross-functional teams to support robust scalable data architecture to support Go-to-Market organization
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with 8+ or more years of IT experience in a complex and geographically diverse environment
- 5+ years of experience in the hi-tech industry
- Demonstrable ability to lead effectively across matrixed teams and at peer and executive levels
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills
- Must have a solid understanding of data systems implementations and release cycles
- Willingness to take personal responsibility for the outcomes resulting from judgment, guidance, and decisions
- Ability to exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Extensive knowledge of data architecture, snowflake, tableau, SQL, airflow, and python
What the job involves
- The team is looking for a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to join the team and drive our organization’s metrics initiative to measure and report on business metrics relevant for sales, renewals, customer experience and partner organizations
- As a Data Engineering Senior manager, you’ll lead a team of analytics engineers who are dedicated to building semantic layer logic in snowflake and visualizing dashboards in Tableau
- You will provide subject matter expertise on data architecture, that includes designing, creating, deploying and managing Splunk’s analytics data architecture that aligns with direction, best practices, and structured data standards
- You will partner with a team of technical and business product owners across sales, renewals, partner, customer experience functions
- The role involves ownership and technical delivery of all the data engineering and visualization work
- It requires working closely with the leader of data analysts and different operations teams who will prioritize the data requests and detail the requirements for the engineers to execute
- There couldn’t be a better time to join Splunk, at the genesis of our metrics and measurements journey!
- Effectively coordinate with key business partners to implement solutions supporting the business needs, while consistently demonstrating a service-oriented delivery approach
- Actively collaborate with business and operations customers to derive and drive value from existing and new system technology investments
- Responsible for recruiting, developing, and managing both internal and external resources pertaining to ongoing system implementation and support needs
- Build a successful team with a solid focus on business value and customer-centricity
- Optimize system support structures to ensure a high level of end-user happiness
- Continuously look for ways to improve operations processes and increase velocity and quality
- Evaluate emerging and new technologies; collaborate with customers on potential use within
- Provide technical leadership and coaching, fostering accountability, innovation, and teamwork
- Participate in applications budget and prioritization with business leaders to ensure investments are aligned with business requirements and consistently manage to ensure within the plan
- Provides “hands-on” leadership and support of all development tasks
- Selects, motivates, and develops a successful staff
Our take
Splunk was founded to produce software for searching and analysing machine-generated data for clients. The platform provides live data insights and is an attractive option due to its flexibility, scalability and ability to process real time data.
The company has evolved significantly since being founded, implementing developments in augmented reality, machine learning and mobile technology. Further, the company's transition to the cloud has allowed it to provide new offerings, and proved its ability to move with market trends.
Acquired by Cisco in 2024, Splunk now benefits from Cisco's user protection, breach protection and threat intelligence capabilities. The company will continue to deliver its security products, and also has plans to enhance its portfolio moving forwards.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2007
$25m
SERIES C
Jan 2006
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health Care and Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Education reimbursement
- Electric car charging stations
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Stocked kitchens
- Gym discounts/onsite fitness centers
- Pet insurance discount
- Student loan resources
- Cool workspace with collaborative environments
- 529 College Savings Plan
Company values
- Innovative: Splunk values people committed to improving the future
- Fun: Splunk believes in fostering a positive atmosphere and celebrating its successes
- Disruptive: Splunk is always looking for ways to be more efficient and better
- Open: Splunk values honesty and inclusivity, with an open-door policy
- Passionate: Passion for its customers and products is what drives Splunk to keep improving
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Gary Steele
(EVP & GM of Splunk at Cisco, not founder)Was CEO and President of Splunk before it became a Cisco company. Previously CEO at Proofpoint and Portera, VP at Sybase, and Market Development Manager at Sun Microsystems.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Splunk
- Our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy is built on three key pillars: growing a diverse workforce, nurturing our culture of inclusion in the workplace, and driving positive change in the marketplace for Splunkers, customers and partners
- We are committed to recruit, retain and develop high-performing, innovative and engaged Splunkers with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We created the DEI at Splunk Council (DISCO) to set and track progress on diversity, equity and inclusion across all functions and geographies
- We have also implemented processes, tools and education to try to prevent unconscious bias across our hiring and talent recruitment processes. It has also given us a company-wide vernacular to label bias where we see it
- We know that Splunkers are made up of a million different data points. And we’re committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and making Splunk a place where everyone can thrive
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide community for underrepresented groups and allies, offering support, mentoring and networking opportunities. We now have nine employee-led ERGs, including Pride, Womxn +, Veterans, Somos (Latinx), Black Employees and Mentors (BEAMs), Disabled=*True, Pilipinx, Natives, and Neurodiversity
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