Senior Data Platform Lead — Hybrid & Flexible Hours

Usercentrics; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work model

Workcations

Job summary

Usercentrics is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead and scale a data platform team for a high-growth SaaS business. You will own the data warehousing strategy, governance, and integrations with operational systems, while guiding DataOps and advanced analytics initiatives.

This leadership role combines strategic vision with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, well-governed data assets. The position emphasizes cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product,

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading a data engineering or data platform team in a fast-growth SaaS environment.
• Experience defining long-term data platform and DataOps strategies for scalable architectures.
• Hands-on data engineering background to review designs and unblock complex problems.
• Deep understanding of data integration with operational systems and third-party tools, APIs, event-driven architectures.
• Strong governance, security and privacy concepts, including access control and retention.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Data Engineers team as a hands-on player-coach with clear ownership and operating models.
• Own end-to-end data warehousing strategy, schemas, storage patterns, and partitioning for diverse workloads.
• Design and evolve data platform integrations with operational systems and third-party tools.
• Define data ingestion/enrichment standards for reliability, data quality, and fault tolerance across pipelines.
• Establish governance, observability, and cost controls; build robust data flows and monitoring.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Commercial, and Finance.

Skills

Data leadership

SaaS experience

Player-coach

Data platform strategy

Data integration

Data quality & observability

Data governance & privacy

Stakeholder management

AI/ML exposure

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Job description

Usercentrics is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead and scale a data platform team for a high-growth SaaS business. You will own the data warehousing strategy, governance, and integrations with operational systems, while guiding DataOps and advanced analytics initiatives.

This leadership role combines strategic vision with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, well-governed data assets. The position emphasizes cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product,