Engineering Manager Data Platform

About the opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Manager to lead one of our Data Platform teams currently undergoing a fundamental transformation from a traditional service-oriented model into a product-oriented platform team focused on automation scalability integration and developer enablement.

As Engineering Manager you will play a pivotal role in accelerating this transition guiding the team through a challenging but high-potential journey.

You will be responsible for shaping and executing long-term technical and organizational strategies that enable scalable ownership models across the company allowing teams to safely and autonomously leverage platform capabilities. Your leadership will be key to evolving a team with strong operational foundations into a high-impact autonomous group of engineers who deliver reliable and compliant platform solutions empower development teams and contribute to the broader platform ecosystem. You will have end to end ownership of the teams scope including strategy execution and organizational role is an opportunity to shape the future of our Data Platform defining how teams across the company build operate and scale data and AI-driven products in a compliant and reliable way.

In this role you will:

• Define and drive the strategic evolution of the team towards building a modern scalable data platform that enables advanced data and AI use cases by default without requiring bespoke solutions or direct platform team involvement

• Enable development teams to safely and autonomously leverage data and platform capabilities through robust tooling guardrails and well-defined interfaces.

• Establish a long-term roadmap that aligns data platform capabilities with emerging AI use cases product needs and regulatory constraints.

• Build and grow a high-performing cross-functional team capable of delivering reliable scalable and compliant platform solutions

• Shape the teams culture by promoting initiative critical thinking technical leadership and shared responsibility across the platform.

• Coach and develop engineers to strengthen their skills across data infrastructure and platform engineering while raising the bar on ownership and delivery.

• Take a proactive role in performance management ensuring the team continuously evolves towards autonomy maturity and impact.

• Act as a key liaison between Engineering Product Security and other stakeholders to represent the teams roadmap and priorities.

What you need to be successful

Background

• Proven experience leading high-impact engineering teams in a Platform Infrastructure SRE or DevOps context ideally within regulated complex technical environments.

• Strong track record in transforming teams developing both skills and mindset to support long-term strategic goals.

• Experience with public cloud providers ideally AWS and an understanding of how cloud-native services impact data architecture and operations

Skills

• Strong understanding of data platform architectures and the trade-offs involved in building and operating them at scale.

• Familiarity with platform engineering principles and practices including automation observability IaC and secure-by-default design.

• Strong leadership in people and performance management with experience coaching engineers and influencing team culture.

• Ability to navigate complex environments balancing speed reliability and risk with an understanding of regulatory constraints as a plus.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to create alignment across engineering product and business.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate long-term vision into clear plans and team evolution.

• Full professional proficiency in English

Traits

• You lead with clarity and purpose bringing structure and momentum to complex transformations.

• You are proactive decisive and comfortable making hard calls when needed.

• You empower individuals and teams holding high standards while creating a supportive environment.

• You have a strong sense of accountability and inspire it in others.

• You are able to influence teams and stakeholders across the organization to align on shared goals without relying on formal authority.

• You value long-term sustainability over short-term fixes and seek scalable systemic solutions.

Whats in it for you

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europes most talked about disruptors .

• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget work from home budget discounts to fitness & wellness memberships language apps and public transportation.

• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.

• Vacation days vary depending on your location of work. Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.

• The opportunity to work on a data platform that enables real AI use cases at scale with space to innovate and shape how these capabilities are built and adopted across the company..

• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

Who we are:

N26 has reimagined banking for todays digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and its how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

Weve eliminated physical branches paperwork and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.

Founded in 2013 N26 now has more than 8 million customers in 24 markets. We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe including Vienna and Barcelona and a 1500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Equal Opportunities:

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds cultures genders sexual orientations abilities neurodiversities and ages. Were committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected free from harassment and discrimination. If theres anything you need to make the application process work for you please let us know by reaching out to

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