About the opportunity

As a Data Engineering Manager at Contentful, you are responsible for advancing and maintaining healthy data engineering teams, ensuring that we’re building great data products.

What to expect?

• Lead a team of data engineers implementing high-quality data pipelines and data infrastructure to power advanced analytics, growth activities, business intelligence and customer and product analysis.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and match them with projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• With your team, develop technical and product roadmaps then identify, plan, and deliver against those roadmaps. 
• Build a team culture that is collaborative, inclusive, and respectful. Encourage, empower, and celebrate
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Work closely with the Contentful recruiting team to hire high potential engineers from diverse backgrounds

What you need to be successful?

• You are already managing engineers and/or you’re ready to make the jump into full-time management and you have a wide experience with scaling data stacks
• Familiar with principles of building resilient data pipelines, event based data, structuring data effectively for business intelligence, analysis, marketing and advanced analytics and creating a strong data governance framework
• Experience with continuous improvement and the Agile software delivery process, particularly in collaboration with product, business
• You have experience recruiting and hiring engineering talent, combined with bringing new starters up to speed
• In-depth, proven data engineering background that allows you to establish credibility with brilliant engineers quickly
• Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)

What's in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital products. 
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share ownership and the success of our company
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous combination of paid time off, sick days and paid holidays 
• Comprehensive health care package (health, vision, dental insurance, life and disability insurance) and a retirement savings plan
• Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career. Join a free German class or one of our many internal learning initiatives!
• Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
• Our Berlin based employees: Get fit! We offer an Urban Sports Club discount and virtual morning fitness class to help you reach your fitness goals. 
• Share and navigate the excitement of a new workplace with your CFF (Contentful First Friend) 
• Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!

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