Senior Data & ML Engineering Leader | Platform Modernisation

Catawiki; Randstad; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catavoucher on joining

Birthday Catavoucher

Extra day off for Pursuing Passion

Additional leave for life events

Job summary

Catawiki is seeking a Senior Manager – Data Engineering & Machine Learning to lead eight Data Engineers and ML specialists across Amsterdam and Lisbon. You will set technical direction, grow the team, and drive platform modernization for production models, feature stores, and observability.

You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics and business stakeholders to prioritise high-value problems and connect data capabilities to meaningful product outcomes.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing, building and operating data-intensive systems in data engineering or ML engineering.
• Experience coaching senior engineers and ML specialists to grow and set clear expectations.
• Ability to guide architecture for data platforms, distributed systems and production infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the data/ML team, setting direction and ownership.
• Improve data pipelines, integrations and infrastructure used for analytics and ML.
• Enhance production ML deployment, monitoring and reliability.

Skills

Data Engineering

Machine Learning Engineering

People Leadership

Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Kafka

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

BigQuery

Kafka

Job description

Catawiki is seeking a Senior Manager – Data Engineering & Machine Learning to lead eight Data Engineers and ML specialists across Amsterdam and Lisbon. You will set technical direction, grow the team, and drive platform modernization for production models, feature stores, and observability.

You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics and business stakeholders to prioritise high-value problems and connect data capabilities to meaningful product outcomes.