Manager, Data Architecture

Job Title

Manager, Data Architecture

Job Description

About The Position | Major Goals and Objectives and Location Requirements:

The Manager, Data Architecture, Revenue Analytics leads the design, governance, and evolution of the Ad Sales data ecosystem while directly managing the Sales Systems Engineer and BI Engineer. This role combines architectural leadership with people management accountability, ensuring that revenue data systems are scalable, trusted, and aligned with business priorities. The role is responsible for setting technical direction, prioritizing team work-streams, developing talent, and ensuring cross-functional alignment across Sales, Finance, RevOps, and Technology. This is both a strategic leadership role and a hands-on architectural steward for revenue data systems.

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Team | The Team and/or Brand:

Revenue systems and analytics sit at the center of business performance. This role and team ensures both the technical integrity and organizational execution of revenue data strategy. By combining architecture ownership with people leadership, this team ensures scalability, trust, and operational clarity across the revenue ecosystem.

About The Position’s Contributions: Weight % Accountabilities, Actions, and Expected Measurable Results

30% Data Architecture & Strategy

• Own the architectural vision for revenue data systems

• Approve and guide conceptual, logical, and physical data models

• Define standards for modeling, integration, and data consumption

• Ensure architecture supports scale, performance, and evolving business needs

• Reduce fragmentation by promoting shared patterns and semantic consistency

30% Revenue Systems & Integration Oversight

• Oversee system alignment across CRM, OMS, finance, SaaS tools, and warehouse platforms

• Define system-of-record boundaries and data ownership

• Ensure implementation fidelity between architectural design and execution

• Guide ingestion, transformation, storage, and BI access patterns

20% Governance, Quality & Trust

• Establish clear metric definitions and semantic models

• Partner with Data Ops and Governance teams on lineage, metadata, and access controls

• Reduce metric inconsistencies and reporting ambiguity

• Ensure compliance with privacy and security standards

20% Business Partnership

• Serve as senior data advisor to Sales, Finance, and GTM leadership

• Translate business priorities into technical roadmaps

• Drive alignment between analytics capabilities and revenue strategy

• Prioritize investments based on measurable business impact

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience preferred.

Experience:

• 8+ years in data engineering, architecture, analytics engineering, or BI

• 2+ years managing or leading technical contributors (formal or informal leadership)

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Advanced SQL and deep data modeling expertise

• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks)

• Strong understanding of ELT/ETL patterns and orchestration

• Experience supporting BI/reporting ecosystems

• Working knowledge of governance and metadata management

• Strong leadership skills

• Ability to influence executive stakeholders

• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills

• Clear communication across technical and business audiences

• Strong documentation discipline

What Success Looks Like:

• The Sales Systems Engineer and BI Engineer operate with clear priorities and high engagement

• Revenue reporting is trusted and consistent across teams

• Architectural standards are followed without heavy enforcement

• Stakeholders rely on dashboards and systems without reconciliation cycles

• The team scales without constant reactive firefighting

% Travel Required (Approximate): < 5%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr@people.inc.

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Pay Range

Salary: New York: $160,000.00 - $190,000.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.

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