Remote Data Platform Engineering Director

Harnham; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and benefits package

Job summary

Harnham is seeking an Engineering Director to own and lead the engineering function behind a major Data Hub transformation. You will build and mentor a high-performing team spanning data, analytics and platform engineering, while delivering scalable, production-ready solutions.

In this role you will shape engineering standards, drive architecture decisions, oversee migrations and new platform development, and partner with product, security and external partners to translate business needs into

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience across data engineering, analytics engineering or platform engineering.
• Proven capability building, leading and developing engineering teams.
• Experience delivering complex data platform transformations, migrations, consolidations or greenfield builds.
• Hands-on knowledge of modern data stacks, including cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks and orchestration tools.
• Experience with Snowflake is highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, CI/CD, testing, production reliability and architectural design.
• Experience working within regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
• Ability to balance technical quality, delivery priorities and sustainable team performance.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing team across data engineering, analytics engineering and platform engineering.
• Own engineering delivery, including sprint planning, capacity management, technical quality and delivery accountability.
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and production-ready.
• Establish engineering standards across code review, CI/CD, testing, documentation, DevOps and GitOps.
• Oversee complex data platform initiatives, including legacy migrations, consolidation and new platform development.
• Establish monitoring, alerting and incident response processes to support platform reliability and SLAs.
• Remain close enough to the technology to review code, troubleshoot production issues and make informed architectural decisions.
• Work across product, technology, security and external partners to manage dependencies and translate business requirements into technical scope.
• Support hiring, onboarding, team development and strategic engineering planning.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Platform engineering

Team leadership

CI/CD

Production reliability

Architecture design

Tools

Snowflake

Orchestration tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Harnham is seeking an Engineering Director to own and lead the engineering function behind a major Data Hub transformation. You will build and mentor a high-performing team spanning data, analytics and platform engineering, while delivering scalable, production-ready solutions.

In this role you will shape engineering standards, drive architecture decisions, oversee migrations and new platform development, and partner with product, security and external partners to translate business needs into