IT Manager (Minnesota only)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51735

SkyWater is partnering with a Minnesota-based manufacturing company to identify an IT Systems Manager who will help shape the organization’s technology vision and support growth through long-term planning and thoughtful resource allocation. Based in the Twin Cities metro, this role offers the opportunity to lead meaningful, enterprise-wide change within a well-established organization.

We’re seeking a pragmatic, proven leader (local to Minnesota) with a track record of building strategic roadmaps, delivering measurable ROI, and maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture while enabling scalable infrastructure and business systems.

**Minnesota-based candidates only**
 

Senior Database Engineer

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51727

My longtime PE Backed client in the financial services space is hiring for a talented Senior Database Developer (growth position) to help own and evolve the database layer of a large, multi-tenant SaaS platform. This is not a DBA or analytics role, it’s a senior engineering position embedded within product engineering.

Why this role:

* First engineer focused on database stewardship within product engineering organization
* High impact, broad visibility, and real ownership
* Fully remote, flexible schedule, strong work-life balance

If you’re a senior engineer who loves databases and wants to shape how a platform scales this role should be to your liking.

IT Manager (Minnesota-only)

  • Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51699

Our client, a rapidly expanding organization in the fire, life, and electrical safety sector, is seeking an experienced, hands-on IT Manager to lead technology across a portfolio of testing, inspection, laboratory, and certification businesses. With multiple recent acquisitions and more planned, the company is unifying systems, modernizing infrastructure, and preparing for scalable global growth.

In this newly created role, you will oversee IT operations for ~150 users across several subsidiaries. You will stabilize day-to-day environments, improve reliability, and drive the standardization of infrastructure, cloud services, security practices, and core business systems. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable at the keyboard diagnosing issues as they are advising leadership, shaping integration plans, and supporting M&A activity.

Client Support Analyst

  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51675

SkyWater is partnering with a FinTech Company in downtown Chicago to expand its client support team. 

This is a newly created position with great visibility, room for advancement, and the opportunity to work with current-generation technology. They’re also offering good pay, benefits and hybrid flexibility after 6 months.

Here’s what they’re looking for:
 

  • Experience in the Finance Industry and a Four-year degree
  • Familiarity with SQL, Python, C#, or other languages and US Equities and Derivatives Market. 
  • Experience working with institutional trading firms.
  • Willingness to obtain SIE, Series 7, 6, and 63. 
  • FIX Protocol, and application support experience are recommended.
  • Ability to commute to their office downtown

No visa sponsorship is available.

If you’re interested, let me know!

Director of IT (Minnesota-only)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51606

SkyWater is partnering with a Minnesota-based manufacturing company to recruit a hands-on IT leader who can scale modern technology capabilities within a regulated environment. This mid-sized organization ($50M–$150M revenue) is a proven leader in its industry and backed by an ownership group deeply committed to long-term sustainability and growth. Based in the Twin Cities metro, this is an opportunity to guide an IT team through the next phase of transformation and expansion.

We’re seeking candidates who are local to Minnesota, have demonstrated success in people leadership, and bring experience in regulated environments (e.g., NIST, ITAR, CMMC), ERP systems, AI initiatives, and M&A integration. If this aligns with your background, we encourage you to apply.

Senior Front End Developer

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51605

My longtime client is hiring for a talented Senior Front End Developer. In this full time position, you will be joining an experienced team that takes pride in crafting beautiful, high preforming web applications in a collaborative work environment. Over the years we have placed more than dozen people at this company across multiple disciplines, and they have a strong track record of hiring solid talent and they have many long tenured employees. So, if you are looking to work for a reputable brand in the retail space that believes in sustainability, giving back, and making a positive impact we should connect.

Agile Project Manager (Minnesota-Hybrid)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51559

SkyWater has recently partnered with a growing, Minneapolis-based organization that has been around for over 35 years and continued to hire strong technical talent. This organization is a B-corp that offers solutions and services that help the betterment of society.

This Agile Project Manager will work with the development team and ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of internal and client-facing projects. This person will own sprint planning, coordinate workloads across the team, and create the structure and accountability needed for successful execution.

Soft skills are very important as this is a close-knit team. Must be local to MN, and not require sponsorship.

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, understand software development, and enjoy keeping teams aligned and productive, we’d love to talk.

Senior Data Engineer

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51501

We have been retained by a local manufacturer with strong growth and stability to bring on a seasoned data engineering professional for a pivotal Senior Data Engineer position. In this highly impactful and visible role you will be a hands on technical subject matter expert as they continue to modernize their data environment. Reporting to the Director of Software Development and working closely with their Director of BI you will be responsible for maintaining and modernizing their data environment as they transition from on-prem to the cloud (likely Azure).

If you are someone who has experience taking data environments to the cloud and enjoy variety, moving the needle, and being a technical data guru this should be to your liking. Hybrid role (2-3 days onsite).

Python Engineer

  • Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51495

SkyWater Search Partners has partnered with a growing tech consulting firm to hire a Senior Python Engineer for a critical project with one of the largest banks in the U.S., focused on optimizing costs across key areas of the company.

This highly visible role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on an enterprise system using Python, big data tools (e.g., Spark, PySpark), support automated deployments, and leverage modern cloud technologies.

The position is fully onsite in Jersey City, NJ through 2025 (no relocation assistance), transitioning to fully remote afterward as you continue contributing to other projects.

Sponsorship is not provided.

Database Administrator (Minnesota-based)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51487

SkyWater is partnering with a leading cloud software innovator supporting thousands of customers is expanding its data operations team. We’re seeking a Database Administrator passionate about optimizing large-scale PostgreSQL environments on AWS. This is a chance to shape the performance and reliability of a mission-critical SaaS platform serving global clients.

If you’re local to Minnesota, and open to an opportunity to flex some database muscle on a small team – apply now!

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