Analytics Platform Engineering Lead

Harnham; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Leadership role

Career development

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Harnham is seeking an Analytics Engineering Manager in Amsterdam to own and scale a company-wide data platform powering critical product and business decisions. You will lead a team, drive reliability and performance, and partner with senior leadership to shape data strategy.

The role emphasizes ownership of ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, semantic definitions, and cost-aware cloud platform management to deliver trusted data at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data or analytics engineering teams in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in data warehousing, data modelling and large-scale processing.
• Proven experience with ELT/ETL pipelines and orchestration tools.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, GCP).
• Strong focus on data quality, observability and monitoring.
• Ability to drive cost optimisation in cloud data environments.
• Effective communicator to translate complex concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Track record of balancing leadership, delivery and hands-on contribution.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end data platform including ingestion pipelines, modelling and warehouse orchestration.
• Lead and develop a team of analytics and data engineers, setting standards and growth.
• Drive automation across data workflows to improve scalability and efficiency.
• Ensure high data quality through monitoring, testing and robust data contracts.
• Design and govern a semantic layer for consistent metric definitions.
• Optimize warehouse performance and manage cost efficiency at scale.
• Establish engineering best practices including CI/CD, version control and code quality.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT orchestration

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Cost optimisation

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

GCP/Azure

Job description

Harnham is seeking an Analytics Engineering Manager in Amsterdam to own and scale a company-wide data platform powering critical product and business decisions. You will lead a team, drive reliability and performance, and partner with senior leadership to shape data strategy.

The role emphasizes ownership of ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, semantic definitions, and cost-aware cloud platform management to deliver trusted data at scale.