Sr. Manager Data Engineering

They say you are the company you keep - and at Cracker Barrel, we take that seriously. At the Store Support Center, we're in the business of serving those who serve our guests. Whether you're designing solutions, telling our story, or setting our teams up for success, your work makes a difference every single day. Here, the work means more because we take pride in doing it together. So, join our team and find your place, because here...we're all in good company.

What You'll Do - You'll Make the Moment

Technical Architecture & Hands-On Leadership

Lead a team of data engineers in developing and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure.

Drive the evolution of our data architecture to support scalability, reliability, and performance with a Snowflake-first mindset, including data modeling standards, ELT patterns, warehouse strategy, security, performance optimization, and cost governance.

Remain technically hands-on as needed by designing solutions, reviewing code, modeling data, and guiding implementation decisions to ensure quality and consistency across the platform.

Promote and enable a culture of self-service analytics through thoughtful data architecture design and tool enablement.

Champion best practices in data engineering, continuously seeking opportunities to optimize processes and workflows and move the team from ad hoc pipelines toward reusable, scalable, and configuration-driven patterns.

Team Leadership & Planning

Direct the daily operations of the department, including analyzing and delegating work, establishing priorities, developing and monitoring adherence to standards, and guiding deadlines.

Own team-level planning, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, capacity management, and sequencing of work across initiatives.

Translate strategic initiatives and architectural goals into executable roadmaps and sprint-level plans.

Mentor team members, providing guidance and support to help them grow both technically and professionally.