Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Job Description

Position title:    Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Contract type / duration:    5-year fixed-term contract
Location:    Geneva
Department:    Office of the COO
Team:    Digital Technology Strategy and Solutions
Reports To:    Head, Applications, Engineering, & Platforms
N° of positions supervised (if applicable):    1
Career Step:    4

1.    About the Role
Digital Technology Strategy & Solutions (DTSS) is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to architect and manage the development of Gavi’s enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and integration services. This role is critical to enabling data-driven decision-making by ensuring the availability, quality, and accessibility of data across systems such as SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft 365. As the technical lead, you will guide a team of data engineers, work closely with data analysts, product teams, and business units, and oversee the architecture and operation of Gavi’s cloud-based data infrastructure including the evolution of platforms such as Microsoft Fabric and other Azure-based data services. The role places particular emphasis on data modelling, data governance alignment, and high-quality documentation to ensure consistent, trusted, and reusable data assets across the organization.

2.    Key Responsibilities
Data Platform Architecture

• Design, implement, and evolve Gavi’s cloud-based data architecture using platforms such as Azure Synapse, Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or similar tools.
• Define enterprise data modelling standards and contribute to shared design patterns that support analytics, reporting, and advanced data use cases.
• Establish guidance for storage optimization, data lifecycle management, and documentation standards to support maintainability and reuse.

Pipeline Development & Data Integration

• Lead the design and development of scalable data pipelines integrating data from systems including SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise applications.
• Ensure data pipelines are robust, maintainable, and follow best practices in orchestration and error handling.
• Promote and enforce high standards for pipeline documentation, data lineage visibility, and metadata consistency.

Team Leadership & Delivery Management

• Manage a small team of data engineers, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and code reviews.
• Coordinate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and prioritization with data integrity and platform teams.

Data Quality & Security

• Ensure data pipelines and storage solutions meet data integrity, availability, and confidentiality requirements.
• Collaborate with the cybersecurity and data integrity teams to implement access controls, data masking, auditing, and governance-aligned data models.
• Contribute to establishing standards for documentation, naming conventions, and data stewardship practices across the data engineering landscape.
• Collaboration & Architecture Support
• Work closely with analysts, business teams, and application owners to understand data needs and translate them into scalable, well-modelled solutions.
• Provide architectural input during project planning and vendor evaluations, ensuring alignment with established data patterns and governance expectations.
• Other responsibilities as required.

3.    Your Experience and Skills
Academic

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field required. Masters preferred.

Work Experience

• Typically 8 to 12 years in data engineering or software development, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience delivering cloud-based data integration and analytics platforms is required.
• Excellent experience with Azure Data Services, Microsoft Fabric, SQL, and ETL/ELT tools is desired.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouse/data lakehouse models is essential.
• Knowledge of data APIs, security frameworks, orchestration tools and standards-based documentation practices is required.
• Familiarity with data from ERP and CRM systems such as SAP and Salesforce is ideal.

Leadership & Communication

• Excellent team leadership and project coordination skills.
• Able to translate business needs into technical designs and influence across functions. 

Languages

• Written and spoken fluency in English.
• French is a plus.

4.    How You Work (Behaviours and Mindsets)

• Collaborates deeply with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with organizational goals.
• Communicates technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Builds scalable solutions by prioritizing performance, maintainability, reusability and clear documentation.
• Leads with accountability, ensuring that delivery deadlines, data quality, and user needs are consistently met.
• Thrives in complexity, designing systems that operate across diverse platforms and data formats.
• Drives continuous improvement, refactoring pipelines, improving efficiency, strengthening documentation and introducing automation.
• Operates independently in architectural design, solution delivery, and team management

If you wish to apply, please provide a cover letter and resume through our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on ”Senior Manager, Data Engineering”. Deadline for applications is 1 February 2026.

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Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases. You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities. You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank – and from business, civil society and government. And you will work in the first global health organisation to receive equal gender salary certification. Your unique experience, skills and talents can help us achieve our vision of leaving no one behind without the life-saving power of vaccines.

About the Organization

Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases. You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities. You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank – and from business, civil society and government. And you will work in the first global health organisation to receive equal gender salary certification. Your unique experience, skills and talents can help us achieve our vision of leaving no one behind without the life-saving power of vaccines.  

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