Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Data, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Chemnitz
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will shape the technical direction of our data platform, develop best practices for data modeling, and lead a team of engineers in implementing innovative AI-powered features.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Staff Engineer in our Data & Analytics team, you will drive the technical direction of our data platform and analytics capabilities. This is a hybrid role combining hands-on technical leadership with people leadership. You will work closely with the Director of Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to advance our data infrastructure and lay the foundations for AI-powered product features.
- Führen Sie die technische Ausrichtung unserer Datenplattform - einschließlich Architekturentscheidungen, Priorisierung und Umsetzung in Zusammenarbeit mit den Stakeholdern aus Engineering, Produkt und Design.
- Support and develop a team of 4-5 engineers: providing technical mentorship, unblocking delivery, and helping build a product-minded engineering culture.
- Own and evolve the data infrastructure: data lake, data foundations, semantic layer, and data governance - building a solid base for AI and analytics features.
- Lead streaming adoption across the team, bringing hands-on expertise to an area the team is actively developing.
- Apply and advance strong data modeling practices across the platform.
- Prioritize and mediate effectively with product stakeholders - advocating for the right technical decisions and sequencing of work.
- Contribute to the evolution of our self-service data platform approach, driving the cultural and technical shift toward distributed data ownership.
- Collaborate across the broader staff engineering community on cross-cutting architectural decisions.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong architectural understanding of data platforms: data lakes, data foundations, data governance, and orchestration.
- Solid data modeling skills and the ability to raise this as a team-wide standard.
- Python proficiency and comfortable working across a modern data stack.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - you are comfortable pushing back, negotiating roadmaps, and finding constructive compromises with product teams.
- A product-minded engineering mindset: able to balance technical rigour with pragmatic prioritization.
Experience
- Proven experience at Staff Engineer level or equivalent in a data engineering context.
- Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka) - hands-on exposure is a strong plus.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets commensurate with a sizeable B2B SaaS customer base.
- Leadership experience or ambition: you are comfortable guiding engineers and driving delivery.
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What we offer
- Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan).
- Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
- Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (including one floating holiday), plus pro-rata fully paid Fridays off during August.
- Support - we offer a company pension scheme.
- Volunteers Day - you'll get one day off per year for supporting a social project.
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Staffbase GmbH
Founded in 2014, Staffbase GmbH is an innovative company that develops internal communication solutions, helping organizations connect their employees.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Staff Engineer, Data & Analytics
- Location
- Chemnitz
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
