Overview
As Director, Data Platform you will shape and run Solactive’s internal data hub, ensuring clean, timely market data for index construction, analytics, and client delivery. You’ll lead a ~30-person data engineering and operations team, driving scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure. You will align platform capabilities with business goals and oversee governance, data quality, and cross‑functional collaboration. This is a high-impact role at a fast-growing fintech with a strong data-driven culture, offering strategic influence and leadership from day one.
Leistungen / Benefits
- 30 vacation days
- hybrid work model
- competitive compensation
- job ticket
- Corporate Benefits
- professional development
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Translate market data and client requirements into platform capabilities
- Define and deliver the data platform vision for scalable, reliable infrastructure
- Lead and develop a ~30-person data engineering and operations team
- Oversee end-to-end data operations from ingestion to internal distribution
- Shape data architecture and governance for quality, lineage, compliance, and operational excellence
- Drive strategic alignment across engineering, product, and operations to deliver business outcomes
- Promote innovation by evaluating internal and external solutions for new tech and data sources
- Communicate vision and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Partner with HR and senior leadership to attract and retain top talent
Zentrale Anforderungen
- 10+ years in data engineering, platform management, or infrastructure leadership
- 5+ years leading large teams
- Domain knowledge of financial market data (pricing, reference, corporate actions, ESG, alternative data)
- Deep experience with modern data architectures and tools (Kafka, Airflow, Flink, Iceberg, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Proven ability to operate large-scale data ingestion and processing systems handling financial or reference data
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex systems
- Excellent communicator with strong strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities
- strategic thinking
- stakeholder management
- problem-solving
- Kafka
- Airflow
- Flink
Head of Data Platform (m/f/d) in Wiesbaden Arbeitgeber: Solactive
Solactive AG ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern in Frankfurt am Main eine moderne Unternehmenskultur mit flachen Hierarchien und einem dynamischen Team bietet. Mit 30 Urlaubstagen und zusätzlichen freien Tagen zu Weihnachten und Neujahr fördert das Unternehmen eine ausgewogene Work-Life-Balance und bietet zahlreiche Vorteile wie ein Jobticket, Zugang zu Fitnessangeboten und ein ergonomisches Arbeitsumfeld. Zudem haben Mitarbeiter die Möglichkeit, von Anfang an Verantwortung zu übernehmen und wertvolle Beziehungen innerhalb und außerhalb des Unternehmens aufzubauen.
