Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Data, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop modern ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake and Airflow, manage event streaming with Kafka, and automate workflows for scalability while leading a team and establishing data quality standards.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Shape Platform Strategy & Architecture
- Pioneer Agentic AI & Analytics Innovation
- Modernize Pipelines & Event Streaming: Build, optimize, and manage highly resilient ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, and Airflow. You will design modern ingestion and transformation architectures while enabling near-real-time event streaming capabilities through Kafka and similar technologies.
- Automate Workflows & Operational Processes: Leverage orchestration and automation platforms such as n8n to connect systems, streamline business operations, eliminate repetitive manual work, and enable scalable workflow automation across teams.
- Establish AI-Ready Data Foundations: Ensure all data products are discoverable, well-documented, governed, and trusted across the organization. You will establish strong data contracts, ownership models, observability standards, and governance practices so both humans and AI-powered systems can confidently work with data.
- Leverage Cloud & DevOps Infrastructure: Deploy and manage cloud-native data infrastructure on AWS while working with Infrastructure-as-Code and containerized environments using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Empower & Mentor a Skilled Team: Provide dedicated technical leadership and hands-on mentorship to two data engineers. You will establish engineering standards, scalable operational practices, testing structures, and a strong culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Data Governance & Reliability: Strong understanding of data quality, governance, observability, security, and reliable data products.
- Extreme Ownership: You take ownership of infrastructure challenges, architectural decisions, and operational improvements proactively.
- Pragmatic Innovator: You balance innovation with reliability, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
- Developer Empathy & Mentorship: You enjoy mentoring teammates and communicating technical concepts clearly across teams.
- Continuous Learning & Adaptability: You stay curious about modern data technologies, workflow automation, and emerging AI capabilities.
Experience
- Proven Data Engineering Foundation: 5+ years of experience in data engineering or technical leadership, with strong expertise in SQL, Python, ETL/ELT, data modeling, and scalable data architectures.
- Modern Platform & Architecture Experience: Proven experience designing scalable data platforms and migrating legacy systems toward modular or event-driven architectures.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Extensive experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align technical architecture with business goals.
- The Modern Data Stack: Hands-on expertise with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Airbyte, plus experience with event-streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Advanced Coding & DevOps: Strong Python skills and experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Automation & AI Engineering: Experience or strong interest in analytics agents, LLM integrations, and workflow automation using tools such as OpenAI APIs, Anthropic APIs, n8n, LangChain, or LlamaIndex.
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What we offer
- We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However, you identify. We believe in equal opportunities.
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GotPhoto
GotPhoto is a Berlin-based company that assists photographers in digitizing their workflows. The platform offers a comprehensive solution that includes photo management, customer communication, as well as order and payment processing. Since its founding in 2012, GotPhoto enables photographers to focus on their creative work by simplifying administrative tasks.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Data Platform Lead
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
