Engineering Director

Overview

Engineering Director to stand up and scale a high-performing engineering team for a Data Hub data platform. Focuses on engineering operations, technical excellence, and production reliability while coordinating across multiple business units.

What you'll do

• Stand up and scale the engineering team and manage team output, quality, and morale.
• Own day-to-day engineering operations including sprint delivery, technical quality, and capacity planning.
• Drive technical excellence through architecture decisions, code quality, and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical blockers, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the medallion data architecture.
• Ensure production systems meet SLAs using monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.

What you'll need

• 5-8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams with hiring, performance management, and delivery accountability.
• Direct experience with modern data stack including cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred), transformation frameworks, and orchestration tools.
• Track record delivering complex data platform initiatives such as migrations, consolidations, and greenfield builds.
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
• Ability to review code, debug production issues, and make sound architectural judgments.

Details

• Location: Remote, Netherlands.