Data Platform Engineering Manager

About the role

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies, Workers Compensation Division, is looking for a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the organization's enterprise data platform and is accountable for its performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. This individual oversees the selection, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the technologies that store, process, and move data across the organization.

The position requires broad expertise across relational, NoSQL, and analytical data platforms, with responsibility for developing and strengthening these capabilities within the team. The Manager leads day-to-day platform operations, including 24x7 support and incident response, and ensures delivery through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices aligned with the Autonomous Composable Development (ACD) model.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

TEAM LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT - Directly supervises Database engineers day-to-day direction, workload prioritization, performance management, 1:1s, and reviews aligned to the IC level framework.

- Accountable for developing the team’s depth across relational, NoSQL, and analytical platforms, and for raising automation, IaC, and GitOps proficiency.

- Accountable for closing the gap between defined standards and demonstrated team practice.

- Manages on-call rotation scheduling and escalation coverage.

- Surfaces risks, gaps, and disagreements in writing at the time they are identified rather than after work is underway.

- Resolves cross-team blockers directly with peer leaders and escalates only what cannot be settled at that level.

DATA PLATFORM OWNERSHIP - Owns the operational data store estate: OLTP and NoSQL across MS SQL, Cosmos, and equivalents. Recommends the right store for a given workload rather than defaulting to a single engine.

- Owns transformation and data movement: ADF, Airflow, and the replacement of the HVR and SSIS approaches currently in place.

- Operates the analytical data platform — OneLake and the Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers — to the same standards as the relational estate.

- Selects technology within each category, and is accountable for the reliability, performance, and cost of what is chosen.

- Manages data platform cost, licensing, and capacity per organizational guidelines.

AUTOMATION AND DELIVERY - Defines standards for GitOps schema management, IaC provisioning, and lifecycle automation. Authors and reviews T-SQL, PowerShell, and IaC templates (Terraform, Azure DevOps) for database provisioning and schema deployment.

- Accountable for moving the team’s work from manual execution to self-service — including database change management through Liquibase or equivalent tooling, and the automation of environment refreshes.

- Responsible for the team’s participation in cross-team automation initiatives, including timely delivery of post-configuration requirements, provisioning inputs, and integration constraints to partner engineering teams.