Madrid-Based Hands-On Data Engineering Manager

MediaRadar; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

MediaRadar seeks a Data Engineering Manager in Madrid who will lead and mentor a growing team while remaining hands-on in coding, schema design, and PoCs. You will drive end-to-end data delivery and modernize the platform toward an open, AWS-based stack, collaborating across North America, India, and Europe.

You'll balance leadership with hands-on delivery, engineering robust ETL/ELT pipelines and promoting AI-assisted development practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years in data engineering / ETL as a hands-on engineer.
• Strong SQL and RDBMS skills with SQL Server and Postgres.
• Hands-on with dbt, ClickHouse, Airflow or Dagster.
• Strong Python for building data pipelines.
• Experience with AI coding assistants and prompt tooling.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor data engineers on the Madrid team with technical direction.
• Design, build, and optimize robust ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Champion AI-assisted development and establish best practices.
• Build POCs to validate new tools and patterns before rollout.
• Contribute to migrating to an AWS-based stack and modernize platform.
• Ensure end-to-end data delivery from ingestion to client platforms.

Skills

SQL

Python

Leadership

Data Pipelines

AWS

AI-assisted coding

ETL/ELT

Git

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

dbt

ClickHouse

Airflow

Dagster

Terraform

Kubernetes

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

MediaRadar seeks a Data Engineering Manager in Madrid who will lead and mentor a growing team while remaining hands-on in coding, schema design, and PoCs. You will drive end-to-end data delivery and modernize the platform toward an open, AWS-based stack, collaborating across North America, India, and Europe.

You'll balance leadership with hands-on delivery, engineering robust ETL/ELT pipelines and promoting AI-assisted development practices across the team.