Redwood Materials is a battery recycling and materials company now rapidly scaling an energy-storage division that repurposes EV batteries to power AI data centers and other large industrial loads.
<div class="content-intro"><div class="page"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Redwood Materials</strong></span></p> <div> <p><strong>Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling </strong><strong>— </strong><strong>keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017,</strong><strong> we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Data Engineering Manager</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Redwood Materials is looking for a motivated and talented Manager of Data Engineering to lead a team of Data Engineers and Analysts. This role requires collaboration with other business units to identify needs, scope problems, and chart the long-term roadmap for the data platform and services. The Data team is responsible for managing data assets in a data lake architecture and overseeing the full data lifecycle from ingestion to processing to consumption. The ideal candidate is someone with experience managing technical teams, strong interpersonal skills, and technical skills in data engineering and creating/managing/supporting AWS infrastructure.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Responsibilities will include:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead and grow a team of data engineers and analysts, including hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own the long-term roadmap and prioritization for the data platform, balancing infrastructure investment, new pipeline development, and analytics requests from across the business</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive cross-functional collaboration with teams across Redwood to discover needs, scope problems, and translate requirements into technical deliverables</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Oversee the design and operation of data pipelines spanning streaming datasets, APIs, and various data stores, ensuring they meet reliability and quality standards</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Operationalize the team — set on-call expectations, triage incoming work, and ensure production data workloads have appropriate monitoring and incident response</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Stay technically hands-on — review code, prototype solutions, and step into pipeline or infrastructure work alongside the team</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Foster a culture of technical excellence and execution, and champion the data team's work across the broader organization</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Desired Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience building data solutions in a modern cloud environment, with at least 2 years managing technical teams</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong technical foundation in Python and SQL sufficient to review code, evaluate design decisions, and guide the team through hard technical problems (Trino experience a plus)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Familiarity with the modern data engineering stack — relational and non-relational data stores, ELT orchestration, transformation tooling, and data observability/catalog tooling</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience operating data platforms in AWS using infrastructure-as-code methodologies (CDK a plus); familiarity with containerized workloads in Kubernetes nice to have</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Demonstrated ability to manage production data workloads at scale (detecting and diagnosing issues, monitoring, incident response)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to translate between business stakeholders and technical teams, and to advocate for the team's roadmap with senior leadership</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Physical Requirements:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks, grasp lightly/fine manipulation.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whit