JobFrame · DATADA.DATAENGID906.M1
Data & Database Engineering · Data Engineering
M1 · M1 — Manager (Team Lead) · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$85,619
$67,261 – $108,988 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
M1 · 1 of 5 in track
Median pay
$85,619
$67,261–$108,988
Level
M1
M1 · 1 of 5 in track
Super-function
technology
Demand-heat
moderate
15.2% growth
Summary
Management of data engineering teams that build and operate data pipelines, warehouses/lakehouses, and ETL/streaming systems. Distinct from Database Administration (operational DBMS uptime/tuning) and Analytics/BI Engineering (semantic layer, dashboards): this focus owns the movement, transformation, modeling, and governance of data at scale across cloud platforms using Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery, including ingestion (Fivetran), IaC (Terraform), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub), and pipeline observability (Splunk/Grafana/CloudWatch).
This level — M1 M1 — Manager (Team Lead)
Front-line people manager of a single team; owns delivery, coaching, and execution.