Head of Analytics & Data Platform Engineering

Harnham; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Wellbeing programmes

Leadership opportunity

Cloud technologies exposure

Career development

Job summary

Harnham Amsterdam is seeking an Analytics Engineering Manager to lead a team building a trusted, scalable data foundation. You will own ingestion pipelines, ELT/ETL, data models, and a semantic layer to support analytics and product innovation.

You will drive automation, CI/CD, data quality, and observability while managing stakeholder relationships across senior leadership. This role offers growth in a data-driven, AI-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Data Platform teams.
• Deep expertise in data warehousing, modelling, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Strong ELT/ETL design knowledge with orchestration tools like dbt and Airflow.
• Proven ability to build reliable, large-scale data platforms and govern data quality.
• Experience applying software engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, and code review.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop analytics engineering and data engineering teams.
• Own data ingestion pipelines, transformations, and data warehouse orchestration.
• Design scalable data models to support analytics and business needs.
• Drive automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and deployment best practices.
• Own data quality, observability, and incident management processes.
• Develop and govern a semantic layer for consistent metrics.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across product, analytics, engineering, and leadership.
• Evaluate and implement modern tooling, including AI-assisted workflows.
• Define platform roadmaps and communicate priorities and risks.

Skills

People leadership

Analytics engineering

Data warehousing

Data modelling

ELT/ETL design

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Data quality

Observability

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cost optimisation

Tools

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Harnham Amsterdam is seeking an Analytics Engineering Manager to lead a team building a trusted, scalable data foundation. You will own ingestion pipelines, ELT/ETL, data models, and a semantic layer to support analytics and product innovation.

You will drive automation, CI/CD, data quality, and observability while managing stakeholder relationships across senior leadership. This role offers growth in a data-driven, AI-enabled environment.