Lead Engineer Data Infrastructure

Lead Engineer Data Infrastructure at MOTOR Ai, responsible for defining the strategy and architecture for data platforms, storage, and pipelines while building and leading the data infrastructure team to support engineering, ML, and simulation data needs.

What you'll do

• Define the strategy and architecture for data platforms, storage, and pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency as data volume and usage grow
• Build, lead, and develop the data infrastructure team, ensuring the right skills and capacity to support engineering, ML, and simulation data needs
• Ensure data platforms and pipelines are robust, monitored, and able to scale with growing data and compute requirements
• Partner with data engineering, AI, perception, and simulation teams to ensure infrastructure meets their evolving data access and processing needs
• Establish standards for data security, access control, and versioning, ensuring infrastructure is compliant, auditable, and trustworthy

What you'll need

• Completed degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or comparable field — or equivalent vocational training/apprenticeship in a relevant technical discipline
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in data infrastructure or data platform engineering, including building infrastructure from the ground up
• Proven track record designing and operating data platforms for very large data volumes, with solid understanding of infrastructure budgeting and cost optimization
• Experience leading and developing a team, including prior organizational or people-management responsibility
• Technical skill set comparable to a senior data engineer — solid hands-on experience with cloud data infrastructure, storage systems, and data pipelines
• Strong communication skills to align stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams
• English C1 required; German is a plus

What they offer

• Flexible working hours with room for life's realities
• Subsidy for public transport tickets
• Professional development and training covered
• Corporate benefits discounts on fashion, beauty, travel, culture
• Attractive location in Wedding with excellent public transport connections