Remote Engineering Director - Data Platform & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and benefits package

Fully remote (NL/UK)

Job summary

Harnham in the Netherlands is seeking an Engineering Director to own and lead a major data platform transformation. You will build and supervise the engineering function, balancing hands-on oversight with strategic leadership to scale data infrastructure and AI/ML capabilities across the organisation.

You will shape governance, architecture, and delivery while collaborating with product, security and external partners.

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 scalable, maintainable and production-ready solutions.
• Establish engineering standards across code review, CI/CD, testing, documentation, DevOps and GitOps.
• Oversee complex data platform initiatives, including migrations, consolidation and new platform development.
• Establish monitoring, alerting and incident response processes to support platform reliability and SLAs.
• Remain close to the technology to review code, troubleshoot production issues and make informed architectural decisions.
• Work with 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

Architectural design

Governance

Cloud data warehouses

Orchestration tools

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Harnham in the Netherlands is seeking an Engineering Director to own and lead a major data platform transformation. You will build and supervise the engineering function, balancing hands-on oversight with strategic leadership to scale data infrastructure and AI/ML capabilities across the organisation.

You will shape governance, architecture, and delivery while collaborating with product, security and external partners.