Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Requirements

• 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

• 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.

What you'll be doing

• 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 team’s culture by promoting initiative, critical thinking, technical leadership, and shared responsibility across the platform.

Perks and Benefits

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s 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.