Data Engineering Manager — AI-First, Scalable Pipelines

The Hotels Network; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Career development

Impactful work

Mobility budget or company car

Net allowance for home office

Job summary

Lighthouse in Belgium seeks an experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team owning end-to-end data domains within a large-scale ingestion and transformation engine. You will unify global hospitality data into high-fidelity semantic layers powering insights for hotels worldwide.

You will combine hands-on data engineering expertise with people leadership, driving data pipelines, AI-enabled platforms, and collaboration across product and business teams to deliver impact at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership in engineering
• Hands-on data engineering with ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to plan and estimate large architectural projects
• Interest/experience with AI/LLMs or AI-assisted coding tools
• Strong data architecture optimization and process improvements
• Professional Python for large-scale data processing

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a data engineering team
• Own end-to-end data ingestion and transformation domains
• Architect, implement, and scale streaming and batch pipelines
• Embed an AI-first development culture within the team
• Improve data quality, observability, and pipeline reliability
• Collaborate with product, engineering, support and business teams

Skills

People leadership

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Batch pipelines

Streaming pipelines

Data modelling

Python

Data cloud tech

Kafka

Pub/Sub

English

Stakeholder management

Tools

BigQuery

Spanner

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Lighthouse in Belgium seeks an experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team owning end-to-end data domains within a large-scale ingestion and transformation engine. You will unify global hospitality data into high-fidelity semantic layers powering insights for hotels worldwide.

You will combine hands-on data engineering expertise with people leadership, driving data pipelines, AI-enabled platforms, and collaboration across product and business teams to deliver impact at scale.