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You will work closely with Data, Analytics, Product and Engineering leaders to turn strategy into sustainable execution.\r\nHow You’ll Make an ImpactLead, coach and grow a data engineering team responsible for Babbel’s data platform and infrastructure.\r\nOwn reliable delivery and operational excellence across the platform, including quality, observability, SLAs/SLOs, on‑call and incident management.\r\nPartner with Analytics, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams to prioritise and deliver platform capabilities that make trustworthy data easy to discover, access and use.\r\nDrive an architecture that supports governed AI and agent workloads at scale, with appropriate access controls, lineage, auditability and cost guardrails built in.\r\nEstablish clear ownership, strong engineering practices and a predictable delivery cadence while continuously improving platform performance, cost and sustainability.\r\nYour Skills and QualificationsWe think you’ll need the following experience to succeed in the role:\r\nExperience managing and developing data engineers, ideally in a data platform, infrastructure or internal‑product context.\r\nA strong track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems, including data pipelines, modelling, schema evolution, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and incident management.\r\nExperience working with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering stakeholders in cross‑functional teams, balancing delivery, quality, cost and sustainability.\r\nIn addition, here are the skills and capabilities we’re looking for:\r\nTechnical leadership:Strong understanding of modern data platform architecture, including cloud infrastructure, data processing, streaming, orchestration and analytics tools. Experience with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Databricks, Kinesis or similar, dbt and Airflow is relevant.\r\nData governance and responsible AI use:Practical understanding of access controls, IAM, least‑privilege patterns, encryption, lineage, audit logging and governance for AI or agent workloads.\r\nPeople leadership and team development:Creates a healthy, collaborative and accountable team culture through clear expectations, constructive feedback, coaching and career development.\r\nProduct and delivery leadership: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.\r\nWays of workingYou 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.\r\nThis role requires strong proficiency in English.\r\nPlease note that our company’s operating language is English, so you will need to be able to work in English.Some perks of becoming a BabbelonianEnjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling.\r\nDecide 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.\r\nLearn 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.\r\nTake advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.\r\nBe part of our employee communities (such as FLINTA, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.\r\nAs part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. 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