Job
- Level
- Lead
- Ort
- Berlin
- Arbeitsmodell
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Feld
- Data, Back End
- Anstellung
- Vollzeit
- Vertragsart
- Unbefristetes Dienstverhältnis
Job Zusammenfassung
In diesem Job leitest du das Data Platform Team und verantwortest die Dateninfrastruktur sowie Pipelines, entwickelst qualitativ hochwertige sowie skalierbare Datenprodukte und förderst die Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Fachabteilungen.
Job Technologien
Deine Rolle im 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.
- Drive an architecture that supports governed AI and agent workloads at scale, with appropriate access controls, lineage, auditability and cost guardrails built in.
- Establish clear ownership, strong engineering practices and a predictable delivery cadence while continuously improving platform performance, cost and sustainability.
Unsere Erwartungen an dich
Qualifikationen
- 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.
Erfahrung
- 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.
Unser Angebot
- 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.
- Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
- Be part of our employee communities (such as FLINTA, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.
Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
Essen & Trinken
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Job Standorte
Das ist dein Arbeitgeber
Babbel
Babbel ist die weltweit meistgenutzte und wirksamste Sprachlern-App. Seit 2007 unterstützt sie Menschen dabei, neue Sprachen zu lernen und sich in andere Kulturen einzutauchen. In Zeiten, in denen viel über Grenzen gesprochen wird, setzen wir bei Babbel auf Brückenbau: Wir möchten das Sprachenlernen so spannend gestalten wie möglich, damit Menschen neue Verbindungen knüpfen und an dergestalt größeren Welten teilhaben können.
Description
- Unternehmenstyp
- Etablierte Firma
- Arbeitsmodell
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Branche
- Bildungswesen
Engineering Manager - Data Platform
- Ort
- Berlin
- Arbeitsmodell
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversität
- Für alle Personen geeignet (m/w/d)
- Nur Englisch
- Nur Englisch erforderlich
