Team Lead - Data Platform

About the role

As Data Platform Lead you will be the people manager of a small, senior team and the domain expert steering AMBOSS's end-to-end data platform strategy. Beyond owning platform evolution and pipelines, you and your team also own the integration layer to our ERP and other core business systems, plus build small services and internal tools that solve specific business and operations problems.

What you'll do

• Own and sequence the roadmap across the data platform, ERP and business systems integrations, plus the internal tools and services your team builds and runs.
• Own the Single Source of Truth for the entire company so Analysts, Scientists and stakeholders across departments speak the same data language and use the same metrics.
• Hire, mentor and grow 3 to 5 Data Engineers. Run clear goal-setting and feedback cycles.
• Design and review core components: batch and real-time pipelines, modeling layers, integrations, governance, observability and CI/CD so Analysts, Data Scientists and other Engineering teams can self-serve with confidence.
• Build internal services and tools to unblock the business.
• Partner with Commercial, Finance, Product, Operations and Medical. Translate ambiguous business needs into systems and data products that move the company forward.
• Create structure where there is none, sequence the work pragmatically and make the call when there is no obvious right answer.
• Codify engineering standards for code quality, testing, reliability and incident response.

What you'll need

• 5+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, including 2+ years leading projects or people.
• Deep SQL and strong Python. Production experience with Airflow, dbt or comparable frameworks.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake) and at least one major cloud provider (AWS or GCP).
• Proven CI/CD and IaC chops (GitHub Actions, Terraform or similar).
• Solid grasp of data modelling, governance and observability patterns.
• Experience integrating with or building against business systems such as ERP, Shop or Bank integrations.
• Track record of working closely with Commercial, Finance, Operations or Analytics stakeholders.
• Hands-on fluency with agentic coding AI tools (like Claude Code).

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/LLM workloads or vector databases on the production side.
• German language skills.

What they offer

• 30 paid vacation days, AMBOSS holiday, personal purpose day and more
• Daily healthy breakfast & lunch by in-house chef in Berlin HQ, AMBOSS daycare, work remotely from other office spaces
• Urban Sports Club membership, Fitbit Versa 3, Deutschland Ticket