Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Lead Babbel's Data Platform team, which owns the data infrastructure, pipelines and platform capabilities that support analytics, data science, product teams and engineering across the company. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for both team health and delivery outcomes, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work while delivering reliable, scalable and well-governed data products.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and grow a data engineering team responsible for Babbel's data platform and infrastructure.
• Own reliable delivery and operational excellence across the platform, including quality, observability, SLAs/SLOs, on-call and incident management.
• Partner with Analytics, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams to prioritise and deliver platform capabilities that make trustworthy data easy to discover, access and use.
• Drive an architecture that supports governed AI and agent workloads at scale, with appropriate access controls, lineage, auditability and cost guardrails built in.
• Establish clear ownership, strong engineering practices and a predictable delivery cadence while continuously improving platform performance, cost and sustainability.

What you'll need

• Experience managing and developing data engineers, ideally in a data platform, infrastructure or internal-product context.
• A strong track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems, including data pipelines, modelling, schema evolution, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and incident management.
• Experience working with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering stakeholders in cross-functional teams, balancing delivery, quality, cost and sustainability.
• Strong understanding of modern data platform architecture, including cloud infrastructure, data processing, streaming, orchestration and analytics tools.
• Practical understanding of access controls, IAM, least-privilege patterns, encryption, lineage, audit logging and governance for AI or agent workloads.
• Creates a healthy, collaborative and accountable team culture through clear expectations, constructive feedback, coaching and career development.

What they offer

• 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical, plus family and life situation counseling.
• Flexible working hours and remote-friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU and UK) or fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
• Internal learning opportunities and yearly learning & development budget for external training.
• Free access to Babbel for language learning.