Data Engineering Manager - Lead AI Pipelines (Remote)

Lighthouse; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Alan Flex benefits

Tax-free payroll deductions for food/…

ClassPass subscription

Health insurance

Job summary

Lighthouse is seeking a Data Engineering Manager in Spain to lead a skilled team of data engineers building end-to-end data pipelines powering hospitality analytics at scale.

You will own the architecture of streaming and batch data flows, mentor engineers, and drive AI‑first initiatives while collaborating with product and business teams to translate data into actionable insights for hotels worldwide.

Qualifications

• Seasoned people leader with a track record of managing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers across data domains.
• Define and drive data architecture, pipelines, and data products.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams.
• Champion AI-first development practices within the team.
• Improve data quality, observability, latency, and reliability.
• Plan, estimate, and deliver improvements with the team.

Skills

People leadership

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Python

Data pipelines

Cloud data platforms

Kafka & Pub/Sub

BigQuery / Spanner / Snowflake

English communication

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Spanner

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

Kubernetes

Job description

Lighthouse is seeking a Data Engineering Manager in Spain to lead a skilled team of data engineers building end-to-end data pipelines powering hospitality analytics at scale.

You will own the architecture of streaming and batch data flows, mentor engineers, and drive AI‑first initiatives while collaborating with product and business teams to translate data into actionable insights for hotels worldwide.