nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

Lead nCino's Data Platform team and build the data infrastructure that powers decision-making across our entire product portfolio.

You'll manage the Databricks-based platform that serves as the data backbone for all of nCino, enabling product teams to deliver data-driven features to customers while supporting internal analytics, data science, and engineering teams. This role requires a governance mindset that can balance security and compliance requirements with the innovation needed to keep pace with our AI-native transformation. You'll work across engineering teams, analysts, data scientists, and security to democratize data, making it reliable and easy to use throughout the product.

As a manager, you'll set technical strategy for your team, drive roadmap development, and establish engineering standards that scale across the organization. Beyond the technical work, you'll build and develop a high-performing engineering team through coaching, mentorship, and active participation in each engineer's growth. You'll translate business needs into platform capabilities, balancing hands-on technical guidance with the leadership skills needed to attract, retain, and develop top talent.

This role requires someone who can collaborate cross-functionally with product and solutions teams, taking feedback and translating it into scalable platform improvements. You'll foster an automation-first culture that prioritizes efficiency and innovation while maintaining production-grade reliability for mission-critical banking operations.

Essential Functions:

• Develops and implements roadmaps, resourcing, project scheduling and oversight, and process improvements for team and function

• Identifies gaps and sets technical strategy for the team

• Participates in cross-functional initiatives and leadership meetings

• Drives the evolution of engineering standards and practices across the department

• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to engineers, identifying individual growth needs for engineers

• Accomplish results through professional employees by setting project timelines, priorities based on project objectives, and oversight of ongoing assignments.

• Attract, select, and retain high-level talent through active participation in performance management and professional development of team members.

• Leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance software development activities, including code generation, testing, debugging, and optimization.

• Apply AI insights to identify patterns, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall development efficiency and product quality.

• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities where appropriate to strengthen product functionality and user experience.

• Maintain awareness of emerging AI trends and best practices to inform continuous learning and innovation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience and 2+ years of management experience or combination of education and experience

• Proficiency in more than one major programming language

• Deep understanding of the foundation of software engineering principles, including system design, architecture, and development practices

• Proven success in a fast-paced development environment, with a focus on improving development practices and processes to enhance team efficiency, collaboration, and code quality in a large-scale organization

• Proven success as a coach and mentor of technical staff

• Ability to motivate yourself and others, prioritize your own work, and adapt and thrive in a dynamic team environment

• Excellent problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Desired:

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.

The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.

The base salary range for this job is:

$121,900.00 - $213,300.00

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at recruiting@ncino.com.

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.