Lead Data Platform Engineer

About the Role

Lead the design and operation of a production data platform for a procurement technology product. This hands-on technical leadership role connects enterprise data sources to reliable analytics, working closely with product and engineering colleagues and customer IT teams.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be based in Berlin or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

Design multi-tenant architecture and reusable data models with strong tenant isolation and appropriate access controls.; Build data cleaning, reconciliation, and analytical calculations for spend analysis, supplier comparisons, and simulations.; Develop repeatable integrations and synchronization patterns for enterprise systems, including ERPs.; Own ingestion, orchestration, monitoring, and recovery for production data workflows.; Create tools and processes that make data onboarding, troubleshooting, and analytics development more efficient.; Use and evaluate AI development tools to improve engineering workflows.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience building production data systems, including ownership of architecture and implementation.; Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience in data modeling and query optimization.; Practical experience designing multi-tenant systems with data isolation and access controls.; Experience integrating enterprise systems and working directly with customer IT teams on schemas, APIs, permissions, and synchronization.; Experience operating ingestion, orchestration, monitoring, and recovery in production.; Background in data-intensive B2B SaaS or fintech is useful, procurement experience is not required.