Engineering Manager - Data Platform (m/f/d)

The role

You will lead a mixed team of DevOps, software, and data engineers building a platform-as-a-product. You will manage technical delivery and day-to-day operations for Snowflake-based data infrastructure and Kafka event streaming.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a mixed team of DevOps, software and data engineers
• Run the platform as a product in partnership with the Senior Platform Product Manager
• Guide the use of access controls, cost safeguards, audits, data contracts and metadata
• Run Kafka as the backbone for distributing data and content
• Guide architecture and build-versus-buy decisions
• Review designs and pull requests
• Use AI and automation to improve the team's work

Required qualifications

• At least five years of experience leading engineering teams
• Strong foundation in data or platform engineering
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD and AWS
• Experience operating event-streaming systems such as Kafka, Amazon MSK, Confluent or Redpanda, including a schema registry
• Understanding of data governance, including access models, data contracts, catalogues and lineage
• Use of AI tools and agentic workflows in daily work
• Understanding of how AI agents consume data and how to make platform assets work for agents accessing them through MCP or A2A

Nice to have

• Experience in data platforms, platform engineering or infrastructure
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Familiarity with tools or practices such as dbt and orchestration

Benefits

• Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year
• Hybrid work and flex-time
• International team and social events
• Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options
• Free access to Langdock and all its amazing functionalities
• Career & training opportunities
• Attractive locations and modern offices
• Mental health support with OpenUp

About the company

Statista is the world's leading business data platform. Founded in Hamburg in 2007, it is a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo.