Senior Manager – Data Engineering (m/f/d)

Senior Manager – Data Engineering (m/f/d)

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In Germany – Berlin | Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main | Hamburg | Munich

Elevate is Simon‑Kucher\’s dedicated service line for digital consulting projects. We empower organizations by merging advanced technology with creative business strategies, transforming raw data into actionable insights. Our goal is to deliver scalable, robust, and secure digital solutions that accelerate growth.

What Makes Us Special

• Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
• Add to your experience with projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
• Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
• Feel at home working with helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
• Broaden your perspective with an extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
• Speak your mind in holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360‑degree feedback)
• Enjoy opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
• Benefit from hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
• Unwind in break areas with healthy snacks and beverages
• Participate in frequent employee events and the highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party

How You Will Create An Impact

Client & Team Collaboration

• Ensure stakeholders have access to complete, accurate, and relevant data tailored to their business context
• Accelerate insight generation by transforming complex datasets into structured, actionable outputs that reveal hidden growth opportunities and performance levers
• Increase operational efficiency and scalability by delivering automated, reliable data flows that support fast‑changing business needs across platforms
• Present technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Elevate strategic conversations through clear, intuitive visualizations that translate technical analysis into business language and executive‑ready insights

Data & Cloud Architecture

• Design and implement end‑to‑end data architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring robust data ingestion, storage, and governance
• Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to optimize data pipelines and analytics workflows for AI/ML solutions
• Establish data management best practices to ensure compliance, security, and high availability across the entire organization

Infrastructure & Cloud Management

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud environments to support mission‑critical AI and machine learning applications
• Define and drive cloud stack design and strategy, focusing on high availability, security, and cost‑efficiency
• Advise on implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles, leveraging tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistency and repeatability

DevOps & MLOps Leadership

• Design, develop, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless deployment of AI/ML models into production
• Orchestrate containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) for efficient application delivery and scaling
• Establish MLOps best practices, including feature store management, model monitoring, and automated retraining

Experience

• At least 6 years of relevant industry experience (with a minimum of 3 in a consulting capacity) covering cloud operations, data infrastructure, DevOps, and/or MLOps
• Proven success in deploying production‑grade data and AI/ML solutions

Technical Proficiency

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience designing cloud‑native architectures
• Strong expertise in DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Hands‑on experience building, deploying, and scaling high‑availability environments for AI/ML workloads

Operational Excellence

• Demonstrated ability to implement robust monitoring, logging, and security practices for data and infrastructure
• Track record of optimizing system performance and reliability through proactive capacity planning and architectural enhancements

Communication & Leadership

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Proven leadership in managing teams through complex infrastructure and data‑centric projects, encouraging collaboration and innovation

Educational Background

• A university degree in a relevant field, with fluency in business English and German

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About Simon‑Kucher

Simon‑Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world\’s leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kucher.com

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.

Your Personal Contact

Charlotte Sever

recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com

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Better growth starts here. With you.