Data Acquisition Platform Manager
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
The Data Acquisition Platform Manager will lead a critical platform within Intuit Data Exchange (IDX), responsible for acquiring, ingesting, and normalizing data from thousands of external sources at scale. This role owns the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of systems that power secure, reliable, and compliant data flows across Intuit products.
You will lead a team of engineers and work closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Partner teams to ensure the platform meets the needs of the business while maintaining high standards of reliability, performance, and data stewardship.
Responsibilities
Platform & Technical Leadership
Own the end-to-end data acquisition platform, including connectors, ingestion pipelines, transformation, and validation layers.
Drive platform scalability, reliability, and performance to support millions of users and high-volume data flows.
Partner with architects and senior engineers to define technical direction, standards, and long-term platform roadmap.
Ensure best practices in system design, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.
People Management
Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and technical excellence.
Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career growth aligned with Intuit’s values.
Build and scale high-performing teams through hiring, onboarding, and talent development.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product Management to translate business and customer needs into platform capabilities and priorities.
Collaborate with Security, Privacy, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure data acquisition meets regulatory and internal requirements.
Work closely with partner-facing and ecosystem teams to support onboarding and ongoing integration of external data providers.
Execution & Delivery
Own delivery commitments for platform initiatives, balancing feature development, tech debt reduction, and operational work.
Drive continuous improvement in development velocity, quality, and reliability.
Lead incident response and postmortems, ensuring learnings are applied to prevent recurrence.
Qualifications
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering management role.
Strong background in distributed systems, data platforms, or large-scale integrations.
Experience leading teams that build and operate high-availability, high-throughput services.
Solid understanding of APIs, data ingestion patterns, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Proven ability to collaborate across product, architecture, and operational partners.
Preferred
Experience with data aggregation, data exchange, or fintech platforms.
Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations in data-intensive systems.
Experience operating platforms with external partners or third-party integrations.
Background working in highly regulated environments.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
Career Path
Mobility plays an important role for our engineering community. In addition to vertical growth, our teams offer lateral growth opportunities. Whether it’s working on a different tech stack or product, Intuit will help you get to the next step in your career.
- Software Engineer 1 & 2
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Staff Software Engineer
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer
- Principal Software Engineer
- Distinguished Software Engineer
There's so much flexibility in terms of moving not just between teams, but between roles.
Lucy Shen Developer Advocate
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