OUR COMPANY

Teradata empowers companies to achieve high-impact business outcomes through analytics. With a powerful combination of Industry expertise and leading hybrid cloud technologies for data warehousing and big data analytics, Teradata unleashes the potential of great companies. Partnering with top companies around the world, Teradata helps improve customer experience, mitigate risk, drive product innovation, achieve operational excellence, transform finance, and optimize assets. Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts as a future-focused company for its technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value. 

The Teradata culture isn’t just about one kind of person. So many individuals make up who we are, making us that much more unique. It’s what sets apart the dynamic, diverse and collaborative environment that is Teradata. But even as individuals, there’s one thing that we all share —our united goal of making Teradata and our people, the best we can be.

OUR TEAM

This position is for a Software Engineer in the SQL-Engine Services team within the Vantage Core - Platform Software organization.  The SQLES Team is comprised of multiple scrum level teams working towards the same goal: to provide comprehensive, reliable, and scalable solutions for the Teradata SQL Engine (i.e. Teradata Database) for our supported public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).  This includes:

• SQLE image creation and validation for our supported public cloud platforms.
• Common/public SQLE Microservice for provisioning and runtime operations related to SQLE.
• In-site SQLE services for cloud runtime operations (e.g. scaling, node failure recovery, configuration).
• On-node SQLE services and tools for cloud runtime operations.

We are looking for a candidate to join our fast paced and cutting-edge development organization that is on the forefront of our “Teradata Everywhere” strategy.

Teradata Labs, the technology research and development (R&D) organization within Teradata Corporation, has been turning innovative decision support technology into business results for over 30 years. Our R&D team of analytic architects, database developers and engineers work to understand and advance emerging technologies to invent the next wave of cutting-edge analytic data solutions. 

Responsibilities:

This position is for a Manager, Software Engineering in the SQL-Engine Services team within the Vantage Core – Platform Software organization. The position involves leading one or more software engineering teams responsible for the development, integration, functional and performance testing, and fault analysis of our public cloud solutions. The manager will be responsible for:

• providing and communicating the engineering vision for your team
• ensuring the timely delivery of committed features
• liaising with other engineering teams, project management, and product management
• mentoring, providing career growth opportunities, satisfying administrative requirements, and maintaining accountability for direct reports
• providing engineering leadership in support escalations as needed

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, empathetic, and creative engineering leader who is ready to participate in an agile team environment and contribute to the success of Teradata.  Given our team’s focus on solutions in the cloud, the ideal candidate should also have experience working on projects on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.  Experience with Teradata Vantage is also preferred.

Job Functions: 

• Manager of an agile development team responsible for Teradata SQL-Engine Services.
• Collaborates with engineering leadership and project management to set the development priorities of the team.
• Hold direct reports accountable for their individual responsibilities, and be accountable to your reports for their career growth.
• Perform various administrative functions related to the management of direct reports, including time sheet approvals, leave approvals, promotion applications, etc..
• Identify areas for improvement and collaborate with leadership on executing plans for positive change within the organization.

Qualifications: 

• Proven engineering leadership experience, preferably with direct reports.
• Experience working in fast paced agile scrum development environment. 
• Experience with public and/or private cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare ESXi, etc.
• Experience in RESTful services development.
• Knowledge of security best practices for RESTful services.
• Knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Familiarity with C, bash, SQL.
• Knowledge of with DevOps automation tools and libraries.
• Experience with Teradata Vantage a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Minimum Education and Residency Requirements: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 6+ years of relevant experience.

Our total compensation approach includes a competitive base salary, 401(k), strong work/family programs, and medical, dental and disability coverage. 
Teradata is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and commits to hiring returning veterans.