Data Engineering Manager

Amsterdam - Netherlands

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Flow Traders is looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead the data department in our Amsterdam office and partner with other technology teams like quantitative research trading risk finance and compliance to align data priorities with business goals.

In this role you will define and maintain roadmaps for Data Platform Core Data and BI aligned to our companys priorities and translate our objectives into milestones as well as champion platform and data product thinking (clear interfaces documented contracts and self-serving capabilities that increase adoption and reduce operational load).

You will manage project priorities dependencies and risks ensuring a timely high-quality delivery of software datasets and reports and you will establish operational rituals like quarterly / iterative planning change management release practices and delivery reviews. Overall you will drive operational excellence when it comes to incident response blameless postmortems runbooks and continuous improvement.

What you will do:

People management and team success:

Own career development coaching growth plans performance reviews and promotions
Build and scale the team: hiring headcount planning on-boarding resource allocation and vendor management
Foster a culture of innovation ownership and continuous learning
Run effective team practices: 1:1s team meetings feedback cycles and team-buildings

Domain accountability across the data organization:

Data Platform: evolve a scalable self-serve platform (batch and streaming) with strong non-functional posture storage/compute capacity planning performance reliability security disaster recovery and cost efficiency
Core Data (foundational datasets): lead teams building and maintaining critical datasets (market/reference data orders/executions risk) with robust modeling schema evolution idempotent processing and reproducibility for both batch and streaming
Business Intelligence: deliver trustworthy KPIs semantic models/metrics layers dashboards and scalable self-serve analytics; standardize definitions and reduce time-to-insight for stakeholders in trading risk finance and compliance
Tight SLAs and critical data: set and meet SLAs for intraday and end-of-day pipelines (e.g. market data ingestion intraday PNL end-of-day risk T1 reconciliations regulatory/reg-reporting deadlines)
Data governance: partner with Security Legal and Compliance on cataloging/lineage RBAC/ABAC encryption/KMS retention/recordkeeping audit trails and data quality SLAs while ensuring appropriate handling of sensitive trading data

What you need to succeed:

3 years of engineering management leading data/platform and/or analytics engineering teams
8 years total in data/platform/analytics engineering
Demonstrated success growing data engineers careers improving team health and leading multi-squad delivery
Tooling familiarity across at least one modern data engineering stack
Proven track record delivering against roadmaps and tight SLAs for mission-critical data including on-call and incident management
Experience scaling a data platform offering; strong grasp of non-functional requirements (storage/compute architecture performance reliability security and cost)
Familiarity with data governance practices (catalog/lineage access controls retention/auditability data quality frameworks)
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable working with trading research risk finance and compliance
Technical skills that are preferred for the role: Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Big Query Pub/Sub Dataflow Dataproc Cloud Composer GKE Cloud Storage IAM/VPC; cost management and workload isolation on GCP
Familiarity with at least one management reporting tool like Power BI Tableau
Trading industry experience: market data ingestion quantitative research workflows (e.g. model training back testing) order/execution and risk data PNL familiarity with regulatory reporting

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes and any other information identifying potential candidates submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

Required Experience:

Manager

What you will do:

People management and team success:

Own career development coaching growth plans performance reviews and promotions
Build and scale the team: hiring headcount planning on-boarding resource allocation and vendor management
Foster a culture of innovation ownership and continuous learning
Run effective team practices: 1:1s team meetings feedback cycles and team-buildings

Domain accountability across the data organization:

Data Platform: evolve a scalable self-serve platform (batch and streaming) with strong non-functional posture storage/compute capacity planning performance reliability security disaster recovery and cost efficiency
Core Data (foundational datasets): lead teams building and maintaining critical datasets (market/reference data orders/executions risk) with robust modeling schema evolution idempotent processing and reproducibility for both batch and streaming
Business Intelligence: deliver trustworthy KPIs semantic models/metrics layers dashboards and scalable self-serve analytics; standardize definitions and reduce time-to-insight for stakeholders in trading risk finance and compliance
Tight SLAs and critical data: set and meet SLAs for intraday and end-of-day pipelines (e.g. market data ingestion intraday PNL end-of-day risk T1 reconciliations regulatory/reg-reporting deadlines)
Data governance: partner with Security Legal and Compliance on cataloging/lineage RBAC/ABAC encryption/KMS retention/recordkeeping audit trails and data quality SLAs while ensuring appropriate handling of sensitive trading data

What you need to succeed:

3 years of engineering management leading data/platform and/or analytics engineering teams
8 years total in data/platform/analytics engineering
Demonstrated success growing data engineers careers improving team health and leading multi-squad delivery
Tooling familiarity across at least one modern data engineering stack
Proven track record delivering against roadmaps and tight SLAs for mission-critical data including on-call and incident management
Experience scaling a data platform offering; strong grasp of non-functional requirements (storage/compute architecture performance reliability security and cost)
Familiarity with data governance practices (catalog/lineage access controls retention/auditability data quality frameworks)
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable working with trading research risk finance and compliance
Technical skills that are preferred for the role: Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Big Query Pub/Sub Dataflow Dataproc Cloud Composer GKE Cloud Storage IAM/VPC; cost management and workload isolation on GCP
Familiarity with at least one management reporting tool like Power BI Tableau
Trading industry experience: market data ingestion quantitative research workflows (e.g. model training back testing) order/execution and risk data PNL familiarity with regulatory reporting

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills

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AWS
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Flow Traders

Flow Traders is a leading global liquidity provider historically specializing in exchange traded products, but now trading a broad range of asset classes. We provide continuous liquidity, without having any directional opinion. As a technology focused company operating in the financia ... View more

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