EWTN

Lead design and operation of a modern data ecosystem including building unified data lakes, creating ETL/ELT pipelines, enabling analytics and insights, ensuring data quality and governance, and managing a small engineering team. | 7+ years in data engineering/architecture with 3+ years leadership, expertise in cloud data platforms like Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake, pipeline tools like dbt and Airflow, strong SQL and Python skills, BI tools experience, data governance knowledge, and familiarity with legacy CRM systems. | Description HOW YOU WILL IMPACT THE BIG PICTURE: As the Engineering Manager, Data Engineering, you will lead the design and operation of a modern, mission-driven data ecosystem for the world’s largest Catholic media network. You’ll own the architecture, implementation, and sustainment of our data platforms—deploying a Customer Data Platform (CDP), a scalable cloud lakehouse/warehouse (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake), and cross-platform analytics tools (Mixpanel, PostHog) to unify data across all digital properties. You’ll combine hands-on data engineering expertise with strategic leadership to transform fragmented donor, marketing, and content data into actionable insights that power evangelization, audience engagement, and operational efficiency. What You Will Do • Architect & Build: Implement a unified data lake using medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers) to ingest, cleanse, enrich, and activate data from sources like Virtuous CRM, HubSpot, FlexFormz, and streaming/video platforms. • Integrate & Automate: Create robust ETL/ELT pipelines with tools like dbt, Apache Airflow, and Fabric Dataflows to deliver Supporter 360 and Household 360 views, enabling identity resolution and multi-touch attribution. • Enable Insights: Partner with analysts and business teams to design metrics, dashboards (Power BI), and self-service data products that support fundraising, marketing, and content strategy. • Champion Data Quality: Establish governance, automated hygiene loops (email, address, phone validation), and standardized identity matching rules, ensuring compliance with GDPR/CCPA. • Lead & Collaborate: Manage a small engineering team and vendor partners, mentoring talent while working cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Mission Advancement, and Content teams. • Activate Data: Drive real-time data activation via APIs, reverse ETL, and CDP integrations for personalized, omni-channel engagement. About You • 7+ years in data engineering/architecture, with at least 3 years in leadership roles. • Proven experience with cloud data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar) and modern pipeline tools (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran). • Expertise in data modeling, identity resolution, and integrating diverse sources (CRM, marketing automation, e-commerce, OTT). • Strong SQL, Python, and BI/visualization skills (Power BI, Tableau, Looker). • Experience with data governance, privacy compliance, and vendor management. • Familiarity with legacy systems, such as Virtuous CRM. • Experience with digital media or streaming analytics. • Passion for leveraging data in service of a faith-based, mission-driven organization, ideally a practicing Catholic with spiritual maturity. What You’ll Love About Working Here • We offer a career with purpose! Apply your God-given talents, knowing your contributions help to advance EWTN’s mission of sharing the Gospel with the world. • Caring environment. We value the importance of family/life balance and welcome you as an EWTN family member, not just an employee. • Worship at work! Freedom to participate in Mass, visit the chapel for prayer or attend an annual retreat. • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurance and Retirement Savings Plan. • 11 Paid Holidays and generous Paid Time Off program. • Tuition reimbursement for online continuing education and degree programs through our partnership with Catholic International University. • Ability to learn alongside legacy employees while bringing new ideas to the growing team.