Senior Director, Head of Data Infrastructure
at Contentsquare
München, Bayern, Germany -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 01 Sep, 2024 | Not Specified | 02 Jun, 2024 | N/A | Technology,Communication Skills,Middle Management,Management Skills | No | No |
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Description:
As we are building a unique, unified product offering from the merger of Contentsquare with our previous acquisitions, Hotjar and Heap, we have reorganized our Engineering & Product teams to align with our new challenges. Within the Core Technologies organization, the Data Infrastructure group holds a critical role and serves all other Product & Engineering organizations, with the key responsibility of processing and storing our customers’ data (200K+ messages collected per second, 40+ billion page views processed per month, 5PB of data stored overall).
As the Senior Director, Head of Data Infrastructure, you will lead a group of 25 people composed of Data Engineers and DevOps, spread across several offices and countries. You will report directly to the SVP of Core Technologies.
REQUIREMENTS
- 10+ years of experience managing software and data engineering teams.
- Experience managing teams of 20+ people, including middle management.
- A proven track record of successfully leading large, complex, and impactful projects (e.g., systems migrations, back-end architecture revamps).
- Experience in data architectures (distributed computing, large DBMS) and high-paced environments preferred.
- Strong program management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including with C-level executives.
- Broad technical knowledge, a passion for technology, and familiarity with cutting-edge technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Vision & Roadmap:
- Develop and drive a robust technical vision for the future of our stack, aligned with the company’s business goals (OKRs) and product vision.
- Define long-term strategy - including knowledge, development, and partnership plans for our key data technologies (e.g., Clickhouse, Flink, Kafka, Aerospike…).
- Support and enable tech watch and new technology explorations. Question the status quo, sponsor team initiatives, and promote them.
- Understand and challenge critical technical choices and directions (scalability, cost, evolvability…).
- Management & Organization:
- Enhance the organization and address organizational gaps in the context of ongoing mergers and reorganization. Anticipate future needs and challenges. Review and optimize team processes.
- Support your managers in building, prioritizing, and smoothly delivering their roadmaps based on the technical vision and OKRs. Ensure a balance between short-term needs and long-term plans, and accurately prioritize across teams.
- Align resource needs and staffing plans across and outside your organization.
- Production & Operations:
- Ensure production continuity of the data pipelines and database components under your responsibility.
- Collaborate closely with Platform & Security teams to improve system reliability and resiliency through the right tools, guidelines, and organization (on-call, knowledge management, etc.).
- Efficiently manage, track, and optimize operational costs for your organization.
- Communication:
- Communicate frequently with top management about team goals, achievements, and roadmap updates.
- Foster strong relationships within the entire organization. Connect with Product & Business teams to anticipate future needs.
- Regularly communicate within and outside Contentsquare about our vision, main technical challenges, and successes.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
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München, Germany