Hybrid Backend/Data Engineering Manager – Product Data Quality

at Zalando

• Job title: Backend/Data Engineering Manager – Product Data Quality
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dublin, Ireland

About the role

• Backend/Data Engineering Manager at Zalando leading a diverse team to ensure operational excellence in product information systems. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to deliver digital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support, manage, inspire and grow a diverse team of 6 data and software engineers while ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvements to business critical systems
• Ensure operational excellence of the services that are at the core of Zalando's vision of having industry leading product information available
• Manage dependencies, work closely with the product and applied science counterparts on solution planning, design and implementation
• Contribute to the overall department priorities, spearhead the documentation and learnings from incidents
• Ensure system-reliability engineering and technical compliance

Requirements

• Excellent experience in supporting architectural and design decisions in the team (such as data pipelines and REST services)
• Hands-on experience in managing teams across the engineering stacks required, in particular a track record in delivering and maintaining highly available production level API systems / data driven architectures / data engineering systems to use to gain insights from significant data loads
• Comfortable learning new technologies and systems, and helping the team to identify the right tool for the job
• Adept at collaborating with a product team, transforming customer issues into actionable solutions and working with them to navigate uncertainty to achieve a positive impact for customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to articulate complex technical topics and solutions in a concise and simple way
• Experience promoting inclusive culture practices and processes that are models for others
• Foster a positive and supportive team environment that encourages collaboration and innovation

Benefits

• 40% off products sold and shipped by Zalando
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Hybrid working model
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• 27 days of vacation per year to start
• A one-time allowance to set up an ergonomic workstation (outside of Zalando office)
• Health & Dental Insurance (opt-in)
• Pension scheme & match up to 10% (opt-in)
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
• Employee shares program
• Family services, including counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options, including Gympass/Wellhub
• Mental health support and coaching available
• Professional development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer reviews