Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Rent the Runway (RTR)  is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100” most influential people in the world and as one of People magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

The Data Engineering team plays a pivotal role in RTR’s technology and analytics ecosystem. The team is responsible for the data warehouse, data ingestion and transformation pipelines, and the infrastructure that enables reliable, high-quality data to flow across the company.

The team partners closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Product, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering teams to ensure RTR’s data platform is trusted, scalable, well-governed, and able to support critical business decisions.

As an Engineering Manager for Data Engineering at Rent the Runway, you will lead the team responsible for building, operating, and evolving RTR’s core data platform. You will combine strong engineering leadership with a deep understanding of data systems, data quality, platform reliability, and stakeholder needs.

You will be responsible for leading a team of talented data engineers, setting technical direction, driving delivery of strategic data initiatives, and ensuring our data warehouse, pipelines, models, and data platform infrastructure are reliable, scalable, secure, and well-governed.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building strong teams, partnering across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and leading data engineering work that has meaningful business impact. You will help shape how RTR captures, transforms, governs, and uses data across the organisation.

• →Lead and develop a team of data engineers.
• →Own delivery of key data engineering initiatives, from planning through execution.
• →Drive the evolution of RTR’s data platform, including the data warehouse, pipelines, transformations, orchestration, and supporting infrastructure.
• →Partner with Data Science, BI, ML, Product, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver trusted data solutions.
• →Set priorities for the team, balancing strategic work, stakeholder needs, operational support, and technical debt.
• →Promote strong data quality, governance, documentation, lineage, and ownership practices.
• →Help the team build reliable data pipelines using tools such as dbt, Python, Prefect, Airflow, or similar.
• →Ensure data systems are observable, supportable, and operated with strong production practices.
• →Communicate clearly with technical teams, non-technical stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• →Build a team culture of ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• You have experience leading engineers in data engineering, data platform, software engineering, or a related technical area.
• You understand modern data engineering practices, including ingestion, transformation, modelling, orchestration, data quality, and governance.
• You have experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, or similar.
• You are comfortable with SQL and understand how reliable analytical data models are built and maintained.
• You have worked with tools such as dbt, Python, Prefect, Airflow, Looker, Tableau, Fivetran, or similar.
• You can manage technical roadmaps, prioritise effectively, and deliver cross-functional projects.
• You communicate well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You care deeply about coaching engineers and supporting their career growth.
• You balance strategic delivery with operational excellence and support.
• Experience with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, or data observability is a plus.