Manage the day-to-day delivery of a blended team of full-time Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and external partner resources — setting priorities, sequencing intake, removing blockers, planning capacity, accepting deliverables, and holding partners accountable to agreed quality, throughput, and responsiveness expectations. Lead the design, delivery, and operation of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, curated data products, Databricks AI/BI dashboards, and natural-language query experiences over governed data, personally engaging in solution design, code review, and hands-on development where it accelerates the team.