Remote Lead, Applications & Data Operations

Vocate Education Solutions; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 531,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Benefits

Dental & Vision

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

PTO – 15 days

9 Holidays

Volunteer Time Off

401k

Pet Insurance

Identity Theft Protection

Job summary

Vocate Education Solutions is seeking a Manager of Applications & Data Operations to lead and mentor a team of 8–10 software engineers, DBAs, and data engineers. You will guide cloud-native software development, data platforms, and API integrations while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across the organization.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management in a remote, collaborative environment, emphasizing CI/CD, data governance, and operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive software, database, data engineering, or data operations experience with people leadership.
• Proven success in developing technical staff and delivering results.
• Strong understanding of software development, SQL, databases, data platforms, APIs, cloud-native architectures, pipelines, CI/CD, and AI in development.
• Ability to review and contribute to code, database objects, data pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Experience with Azure services and cloud-native patterns, monitoring, security, and operations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop 8–10 software engineers, DBAs, and data engineers; set expectations and coach.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership; review designs and troubleshoot complex issues; escalate when needed.
• Oversee cloud-native apps, APIs, SaaS integrations, CI/CD, and related services.
• Manage day-to-day databases and data platforms operations including performance, backups, and recovery.
• Translate business needs into practical scalable technology and data solutions.
• Investigate data issues; drive root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate to reduce operational overhead.
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted development and modern cloud practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Team Leadership

SQL / Databases

Data Engineering

Cloud-Native Architecture

CI/CD

APIs & Integrations

AI in Development

Azure Knowledge

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Cosmos DB

AKS/Kubernetes

GitHub/Azure DevOps

Job description

Vocate Education Solutions is seeking a Manager of Applications & Data Operations to lead and mentor a team of 8–10 software engineers, DBAs, and data engineers. You will guide cloud-native software development, data platforms, and API integrations while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across the organization.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management in a remote, collaborative environment, emphasizing CI/CD, data governance, and operational