Engineering Manager - Data Repository (all genders)

at  Zalando

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THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Data Platform organization is providing Zalando with a reliable and secure environment for storing and processing data. We drive data engineering productivity and data security through interoperable services for data transformation, storage, serving, exchange, and orchestration, as well as data access management, metadata management, and data discovery. Within the Data Platform organization, the Data Repository team is responsible for managing the petabyte scale Data Lake and Mesh of Zalando, providing pipelines and tooling to ensure security and compliance. Join us as an Engineering Manager, where you’ll lead a dynamic team in data engineering while embracing hands-on technical challenges and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Manage a team of talented software engineers building mission-critical data platform services that serve the entire Zalando data community
• Develop a stellar team culture, coaching, guiding and supporting their direct reports and colleagues in their career journey, while cultivating a culture of ownership and customer centricity
• Partner with the product manager and the principal engineer and balance delivering amazing customer experiences whilst taking into account the level of security and compliance that modern day data services require
• Influence and contribute to the product roadmap and the long term evolution of Zalando’s Data Lake / Mesh architecture and capabilities
• Enhance and deliver data access control capabilities of the data platform systems to ensure compliance with GDPR and antitrust regulations
• Ensure delivery of stable, scalable, secure production services that meet the set expectations in terms of quality, performance and operational excellence