Data Engineering Lead — Platform Modernisation & AI

Harnham; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Hybrid working

Career progression to Director

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Amsterdam to lead a modern data platform, set engineering standards, and build a high-performing team. You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver long-term business value and spearhead data, analytics, and AI initiatives in a hybrid environment.

You will shape the data engineering roadmap, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable, secure data solutions while driving delivery and governance across the function.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading Data Engineering teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT.
• Hands-on leadership with ability to mentor staff.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Platform Engineers.
• Define and execute the data engineering roadmap in partnership with senior leadership.
• Drive delivery across platform development, data migrations, and modernisation initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards covering code quality, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Overseeing architecture decisions to ensure scalable, reliable data solutions.
• Develop cloud-based data platforms that support analytics, reporting, and AI use case.
• Managing stakeholder relationships across technology, product, analytics, and business teams.
• Ensuring platform reliability through monitoring, incident management, and operational governance.
• Supporting hiring, team development, and succession planning within the engineering function.
• Championing best practices across Data Engineering, DataOps, and platform operations.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder management

Data warehousing & ETL

Team building

DataOps

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Amsterdam to lead a modern data platform, set engineering standards, and build a high-performing team. You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver long-term business value and spearhead data, analytics, and AI initiatives in a hybrid environment.

You will shape the data engineering roadmap, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable, secure data solutions while driving delivery and governance across the function.