Platform & Data Engineering Director

Visium; München; Vor Ort; EUR 140.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive compensation package

Education budget

Sport budget

Flexible working culture

Impact on thousands of people

International, collaborative team

Zusammenfassung

Visium is seeking a Platform & Data Engineering Director to lead the design, build, and evolution of client-facing AI and Data platform capabilities. You are the technical authority and delivery lead for our most complex programs, ensuring adoption, scalability, and transformative impact.

You will directly manage forward-deployed platform engineering teams, drive data & platform strategy across engagements, and act as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders.

Qualifikationen

• Proven, hands-on experience leading large-scale platform engineering programs in AI and Data.
• Mastered the consulting business with a track record delivering large projects.
• Deep technical expertise across CI/CD, IaC, cloud design (Azure focus), data engineering at scale.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI and Data use cases end-to-end on enterprise platforms.
• Proven people leadership: hired, grown, and retained high-performing teams.
• Commercial acumen and a track record of contributing to account growth and client partnerships.
• Outstanding communication: translating complex platform concepts for technical and executive audiences.
• Inspiring, outgoing personality; leads from the front and engages others.
• Fluent in English; German and/or French are a plus.

Aufgaben

• Architect and lead complex AI and Data platform programs, focusing on Azure and AWS.
• Define and drive platform engineering standards across engagements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor platform engineers and engagement managers.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities within existing accounts.
• Foster an engineering culture that attracts top talent and energises clients.

Kenntnisse

Platform engineering leadership

AI & Data platforms

Cloud architecture

CI/CD & IaC

Stakeholder management

Business growth

English fluency

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Jobbeschreibung

Visium combines strategy, frontier AI, and deep regulated-industry expertise to build and deploy AI-native systems that reinvent how businesses operate - unlocking the value of AI at scale.

We're not a strategy firm that ships slide decks and walks away. Not a tech consultancy that builds what won't get adopted. Not a product company chasing problems it doesn't understand. We're all three at once: strategy, deep technical and integration expertise, and product, working as one. That combination is our flywheel. Consulting keeps us close to the hardest real-world problems. Products let us solve them at scale. Every engagement sharpens our products; every deployment makes the next engagement faster, deeper, and more certain.

We're obsessed with outcomes. While 95% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, Visium is built to be the 5% delivering productised AI that compounds in value, not point solutions that deliver marginal gains. We are AI-native, not AI-adjacent. We don't bolt AI onto broken workflows; we redesign them with AI at the core.

Role

As a Platform & Data Engineering Director, you will lead the design, build, and evolution of Visium's client-facing AI and Data platform capabilities. You are the technical authority and delivery lead for our most complex data & platform programs, the person who ensures that what we build is not only technically excellent but also adoptable, scalable, and genuinely transformative.

You will directly manage forward-deployed platform engineering teams, drive data & platform strategy across engagements, and act as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders. You bring hands-on depth in the modern data and AI platform stack, from infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD to cloud architecture and building data products, combined with the leadership presence and commercial instinct to grow accounts and inspire teams.

As a Platform & Data Engineering Director, you will work on

• Architect and lead the delivery of complex AI and Data platform programs, spanning cloud infrastructure design, automation, CI/CD pipelines, data product design and data engineering, from initial scoping through to production deployment. Our focus is on Azure and AWS
• Define and drive platform engineering standards and best practices across engagements, ensuring repeatability, reliability, and long-term client value
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, including C-Level and VP Engineering personas, acting as a hands-on technical advisor who earns trust through delivery
• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers and engagement managers, cultivating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and ownership
• Identify and develop new business opportunities within existing accounts, partnering with the commercial team to expand Visium's platform footprint
• Champion an inspiring, outward-facing engineering culture, one that attracts strong talent and energises clients with a clear and compelling vision for what great platform and data engineering looks like

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:

• Proven, hands-on experience leading large-scale platform engineering programs in AI and Data, you have built, shipped and operated production-grade platforms and data products, not just designed them
• Mastered the consulting business - you know exactly how the business works and have a proven track record in delivering successful large projects
• Deep technical expertise across the modern platform stack: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud platform design (focus Azure,), data engineering and automation at scale
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI and Data use cases end-to-end on enterprise platforms
• Proven people leadership: you have hired, grown, and retained high-performing platform engineering teams in fast-paced consulting or product environments
• Commercial acumen and a track record of contributing to account growth, whether through identifying upsell opportunities, leading presales technical conversations, or building long-term client partnerships
• Outstanding communication and presence: you can translate complex platform concepts into compelling narratives for both technical and executive audiences, and you do so with energy and conviction
• An inspiring, outgoing personality: you lead from the front, bring others with you, and make the work feel meaningful
• Fluent in English; French and/or German are a plus

Benefits

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package
• A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
• A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
• A flexible working culture because your work-life balance matters to us
• A position that enables you to have an impact on 1'000s of people, and the whole company's growth
• An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset

Check our LinkedIn and website to learn more about us & don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.