JobFrame · DATADA.DATAENGID906.M2
Data & Database Engineering · Data Engineering
M2 · M2 — Manager II · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$110,455
$86,772 – $140,602 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
M2 · 2 of 5 in track
Median pay
$110,455
$86,772–$140,602
Level
M2
M2 · 2 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 — M2 M2 — Manager II
Manages an established team or sub-function; owns planning and performance for the group.