Manager of Software Engineering and Analytics

Overview

Lead a team of six full-stack developers building and maintaining Morningstar's fintech website, while acting as the primary analytics and data expert for the platform.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage a team of six full-stack developers responsible for the website
• Set technical direction and standards across frontend and backend development
• Own the architecture, performance, reliability, and security of the website platform
• Review code, guide design decisions, and ensure engineering best practices are followed
• Partner with Product and UX to translate roadmap requirements into high-quality delivery
• Own and maintain Google Analytics (GA4) configuration, tracking strategy, and core reporting
• Write complex SQL queries (e.g. in Athena) against clickstream and event-level data
• Design, build, and maintain ETL processes and data pipelines to ingest, transform, and model analytics data from multiple sources into reliable, analysis-ready datasets
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards used by Marketing, Product, and Leadership
• Analyse user behaviour, funnels, and campaign performance to generate actionable insights
• Own the website and analytics roadmap, balancing new features, technical health, and insight needs
• Ensure analytics is built into features by design, not added retroactively
• Partner closely with Marketing to measure campaign effectiveness and customer journeys
• Use data to inform prioritisation, product decisions, and investment trade-offs
• Ensure high standards of data quality, tracking accuracy, and reporting consistency
• Establish guardrails around metrics definitions and dashboards
• Champion performance, observability, and operational excellence across the website
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers with varying experience levels
• Create clarity on goals, expectations, and career growth
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management

What you'll need

• 8-12+ years of experience across software engineering and analytics roles
• 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing websites or digital platforms
• Strong full-stack development background, with the ability to review and guide frontend and backend code, make sound architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across the stack
• Experience with modern web architectures and cloud-based platforms
• Deep, hands-on experience with Google Analytics (GA4)
• Strong SQL skills, particularly with large clickstream or event datasets (Athena or similar)
• Ability to connect analytics outputs directly to business and product decisions
• Credible with senior engineers and business stakeholders
• Comfortable switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Clear communicator who can explain both technical and data concepts simply
• Strong judgment and ability to balance competing priorities

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, data-heavy platforms, or SaaS environments
• Experience with AWS
• Experience designing analytics-friendly event schemas
• Familiarity with experimentation, attribution, or customer funnel analysis
• Understanding of privacy, consent, and analytics governance

Details

• Hybrid role; in most locations, four days in-office each week