Job
- Level
- Lead
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Data, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you lead the Data Platform team, overseeing data infrastructure and pipelines, developing high-quality scalable data products, and fostering collaboration between various departments.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Babbel's Data Platform team.
- The team owns the data infrastructure, pipelines and platform capabilities that support analytics, data science, product teams and engineering across the company.
- This is a hands-on role.
- You will be responsible for both team health and delivery outcomes, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work while delivering reliable, scalable and well-governed data products.
- You will work closely with Data, Analytics, Product and Engineering leaders to turn strategy into sustainable execution.
- Lead, coach and grow a data engineering team responsible for Babbel's data platform and infrastructure.
- Own reliable delivery and operational excellence across the platform, including quality, observability, SLAs/SLOs, on-call and incident management.
- Partner with Analytics, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams to prioritise and deliver platform capabilities that make trustworthy data easy to discover, access and use.
- Führen Sie eine Architektur, die gesteuertes AI und Agenten-Workloads in großem Maßstab unterstützt, mit geeigneten Zugriffskontrollen, Nachverfolgbarkeit, Auditierbarkeit und integrierten Kostenkontrollmechanismen.
- Establish clear ownership, strong engineering practices and a predictable delivery cadence while continuously improving platform performance, cost and sustainability.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- A strong track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems, including data pipelines, modelling, schema evolution, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and incident management.
- Strong understanding of modern data platform architecture, including cloud infrastructure, data processing, streaming, orchestration and analytics tools.
- Practical understanding of access controls, IAM, least-privilege patterns, encryption, lineage, audit logging and governance for AI or agent workloads.
- Creates a healthy, collaborative and accountable team culture through clear expectations, constructive feedback, coaching and career development.
- Treats the data platform as a product for internal customers, communicates clearly, manages trade-offs and makes sound build-versus-buy, vendor, cost and reliability decisions.
Experience
- Experience managing and developing data engineers, ideally in a data platform, infrastructure or internal-product context.
- Experience working with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering stakeholders in cross-functional teams, balancing delivery, quality, cost and sustainability.
- Experience with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Databricks, Kinesis or similar, dbt and Airflow is relevant.
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What we offer
- You will work across Data, Analytics, Product and Engineering, building trusted relationships with internal customers and technical stakeholders.
- The role requires both technical depth and strong people leadership, together with the ability to create clarity, resolve ownership gaps and help teams deliver sustainably.
- Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical.
- Plus family and life situation counseling.
- Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote-friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU and UK) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
- Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning & development budget for external training.
- Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes.
- Nutzen Sie Ihre Mobilitätsvorteile und eine vergünstigte Mitgliedschaft beim Urban Sports Club.
- Nehmen Sie an unseren Mitarbeitenden-Communities teil (wie FLINTA, DE&I-Botschafter und LGBTQIA-Gruppen), und besuchen Sie kulturelle sowie regelmäßige soziale Veranstaltungen.
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About Your Employer
Babbel
Founded in 2007, Babbel is the most used and most effective language learning app in the world. No small achievement, and no small challenge. At a time when walls are being talked about, we build bridges - making the language learning journey as exciting and empowering as possible, helping people to make new connections and participate in worlds bigger than their own.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Education System
Engineering Manager - Data Platform
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
