director data engineering & architecture (f/m/d) in Hamburg

Must have

• Java
• Data engineering
• AWS
• Azure
• Distributed systems
• Spark
• Redshift
• +5 years software engineering
• +5 years technical leader

Nice to have

• German language skills (B2)
• Python
• Safe
• Kafka
• ETL
• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Methods and tools
• Agile management
• OKR
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Agile
• Version control system
• GIT
• SVN
• Knowledge management
• Confluence
• Wiki

Daily Tasks

• You will take over the leading role in setting up a new data engineering & architecture unit
• You will be heavily involved in the recruitment process for hiring the right tech candidates in the field of data engineering, machine learning, data Ops engineering
• You will manage our project pipeline and align the capacity and resource planning with internal & external stakeholders
• You will support the strategic direction of our data studios in Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Lisbon, and Bucharest
• You will lead the engineering unit(s) with a focus on efficiency and state of the art technological solutions
• You will define the technical capabilities required to achieve competitive advantages
• You will establish best practices for cross-functional team collaboration and agile software development
• You will apply your technical expertise to ensure advanced architectural solutions and innovative technological practices
• You will enable learning and knowledge sharing across our data studios and mentoring other specialists

Equipment supplied

• OS
• macOS, Windows
• Hardware
• Notebook
• Hardware
• 2 Monitor

Perks and Benefits

• Regular personal development meetings
• Opportunities for career development
• Mobile office opportunities
• Home Office
• Flexible working hours
• Open feedback culture
• Freedom to use own tools
• Learning accounts
• gym membership
• mobility budget

Find out who you’ll be working for

• All
• About
• Work
• Recruitment
• Workplace
• Leadership

About

Where are you most likely going to be spotted on the weekend?
If I am in Berlin and not in the romanian carpathians, most probably you will spot me in a greek restaurant, on the running trail in a Schöneberger Park, the Dussmann Book Store or the LP section or on some saturday's in a Berliner Eckkneipe.

About

Are you leather shoes or a pair of sneakers?
Both, it depends from the situation. I think "Clothes make the man" and I consider it to show my respect to my companions. But a office day in sneakers to take them off beiing relaxed to work concentraded 100% is amazing.

About

What do you like to do to unwind after work?
Get on my gravel bike cycling through the street canyons of my hometown Berlin. If the energy level is still allowing it take a run and read a book to clear my mind.

Work

Work sucks when...
People are not contributing to the team work, following their own agenda and beiing not honest with their real intensions is something what I really hate.

Work

What does purposeful work mean to you?
Bringing the right mix of people, personalities, competences and their motivation together to solve a challenge. To encourage and integrate those kind of teams is my purpose and why I am getting up to go work with joy and purpose.

Work

What are you currently challenging yourself with (work-related)?
Founding a company outside of Germany with all the administrative tasks to do so. I believe we need to further internationalize our team and our competence portfolio to strengthen our team and project success.

Recruitment

What is the most important attribute an applicant must have to be successful in your company?
Be curios to explore, be motivated to learn and be passionate about your contribution to our purpose

Recruitment

How important are formal degrees or qualifications in a time when technologies are constantly changing and evolving?
Personally, valuable know-how in methods, experience in its applications and the willingness to deepen and broaden your skill set is very important. it is important to be able to apply those technology-agnostic.

Recruitment

When looking for potential candidates, is there something that you feel carries extra weight in reference to their CV?
A certain level of endurance - to create impact it takes time in your job. Therefore, I like people who are willing to go beyond and do not run away at the first challenge.

Recruitment

Which three questions do you always ask during a job interview?
What impact are you creating at the moment and what are you intending in your near future ? Why do you think is your personality so relevant for us ? Did you fail once and why did you do so ?

Workplace

How would you describe your company culture?
#Courage #Mindfulness #Collaboration #Impact We want to be courageous, show mutual respect, work together as a team and achieve something great. Our credo: one for all, all for one! In diverse, interdisciplinary teams with over 1,000 connected colleagues we work together in many ways from remotely to onsite in one of our worldwide offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Creativity knows no limits anyways. So we don't set any. Instead, we develop the environment in which you can create.

Workplace

What are your current projects/topics (in your department) / areas of responsibility at your company?
#applydata at scale - https://applydata.io/ So, we are scaling projects from #autonomousdriving #customeranalytics #data-drivengrowth #digitalprocessautomation and #smartfactory by applying our competences of #businessdesign #advancedanalytics #datascience #dataarchitecture #dataengineering #artificialintelligence My businessacumen contributes by the enablement of the teams from several perspectives. Be it from the motivation, technology, methodology or leadership perpective.

Workplace

Do you work in 'Cross-Functional' teams? If so, what roles do these teams consist of?
We do - typically, it consists of software development, analytics, data science, business design and product manager. It can vary from project to project and we scale if flexible with competence guilds. We believe Tech-teams should be lead by techpeople. We made the experience that the best performance of teams is achieved by right mindset and the technical understanding of Tech Leads.

Workplace

What is the mission statement of your company?
creating digital champion - this purpose is meaningful fulfilled from several perspectives: development of digital applications, the organizational transformation aligned to digital business models, the creation and application of computational intelligence from analytics to artificial intelligence and the management of a sustainable digital footprint.

Leadership

What does good leadership mean to you?
A good leader takes responsibility for her/his action and the team. She/he enables the team by a collaborative creation of a purpose and providing services and ressources necessary to achieve the team target. She/he is stimulating curios and explorative fact-driven solution design. By establishing transparent decision guidelines, she/he is delegating decision sand shapes a trustful creative atmosphere to enable decision outside of her/his desk.

Leadership

How would you describe the people who report to you? Is there a common thread in your opinion of them?
People working with me, I spend a lot of lifetime together - the most valuable good I have. Therefore, it is for me very important to work with people from whom I can learn something. Obviously, that includes their skills, but also their drive, their motivation and their passion are stimulating factors for my personal development. So, we are hiring people, who are able to do something, what we as an organization cannot do actually. And I am privileged to have people around me doing that ! For those curios minds we are looking for...

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