Data Engineering Manager — AI-First Data Pipelines Lead

Lighthouse; Gent; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Career development

Impactful work

Mobility options

Home office allowance

Lunch vouchers

Eco vouchers

Health insurance

Pension plan

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Lighthouse is seeking a Data Engineering Manager in Belgium to lead a skilled team owning end-to-end data domains within a large-scale ingestion and transformation engine. You will unify hospitality data into a semantic layer and build pipelines handling massive data streams.

This role blends technical excellence with operational and people-management leadership. You will guide architecture, drive delivery, and champion an AI-first culture while mentoring engineers and collaborating with

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on data engineering with ETL/ELT and streaming/batch pipelines.
• Strong data modelling and architectural capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineers across end-to-end data domains.
• Drive architecture, design, and delivery of data pipelines.
• Embed AI-first approaches and improve data quality and observability.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to deliver impact.
• Mentor team growth and career development.

Skills

People leadership

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Batch pipelines

Streaming pipelines

Data modelling

Python

Cloud data platforms

Kafka / Pub/Sub

BigQuery / Spanner / Snowflake / Datab

English

Tools

Python

GCP

BigQuery

Spanner

Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

Job description

Lighthouse is seeking a Data Engineering Manager in Belgium to lead a skilled team owning end-to-end data domains within a large-scale ingestion and transformation engine. You will unify hospitality data into a semantic layer and build pipelines handling massive data streams.

This role blends technical excellence with operational and people-management leadership. You will guide architecture, drive delivery, and champion an AI-first culture while mentoring engineers and collaborating with