Director of Data
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Description
You will own and execute the data strategy, leading the combined Data Engineering and Analytics function. You will build scalable data platforms, pipelines, governance, and infrastructure; partner with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders; support AI and agentic capabilities; and embed compliance, auditability, and data quality into the platform.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the data strategy.
- Build data platforms, pipelines, and governance.
- Unify data engineering, analytics, and architecture into a cohesive function.
- Set the operating model, rituals, and standards for the data function.
- Architect infrastructure that sources, structures, and serves data.
- Partner with Engineering and Product on data foundations for AI and agentic capabilities.
- Enable self-service reporting and operational intelligence.
- Lead architecture reviews, design decisions, and pipeline trade-offs.
- Represent data to executive stakeholders and the Board.
- Embed compliance and regulatory considerations throughout the platform.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on expertise in data engineering, AI, architecture, and pipelines.
- Experience building or significantly evolving a modern data platform in a regulated financial services environment.
- Knowledge of compliance, auditability, and data quality at the architecture level.
- Experience applying modern AI and agentic systems thinking to products and platforms.
- Experience leading and scaling multi-disciplinary data teams.
- Ability to work in high-ambiguity scale-up environments.
- Ability to translate between business outcomes and technical reality.
- Eligibility to live and work in Berlin.
Benefits
- Individual growth budget of €1,500 or 2% of base salary, whichever is higher.
- Company pension scheme with a 20% employer contribution.
- 25 vacation days, increasing by one day per year of tenure up to 30 days.
- Free lunch on days worked in the Berlin office.
- Monthly subsidy for the Deutschland job ticket.
- Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership.