Careers at Cleverbridge - Engineering Manager – Data & Analytics

As a leading provider of billing and ecommerce solutions, Cleverbridge assists globally operating software and SaaS companies in successfully distributing their digital products. Our innovative approach and dynamic team make us an attractive employer in the industry.

Cologne / Remote

Are you ready to lead at the frontier of data, innovation, and intelligent insights in a fast-moving ecommerce industry? We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager (EM) to lead our Data Platform team, responsible for delivering scalable, reliable, and secure data infrastructure and services to support our data and AI products. This role is a blend of technical leadership and delivery ownership—ideal for someone who is equally passionate about building high-performing teams and world-class data systems.

You will ensure the technical feasibility of our data product while empowering the team to deliver high-quality and sustainable solutions. You’ll be accountable for technical execution, managing feasibility risks, guiding architecture, and driving team performance.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years hands-on experience in agile data and analytics development, with a focus on AWS technologies.
• Proven experience in leading and managing high performing technical teams.
• Proficiency in languages SQL, Python or PySpark.
• Experience with both batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability, reliability, and uptime metrics in data systems.
• Deep knowledge of AWS best practices and reference architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS Services like EMR, S3, Redshift, Glue Data Catalog, Kinesis, Spark, SageMaker, Athena, PowerBI, Snowflake, Oracle, MS SQL, D365.
• Experience in building gen AI solutions and implementing agents frameworks is a plus.
• Excellent project and product management skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Your Responsibilities

• Delivery: implement next phase of our Data Platform and lead engineering work on a portfolio of innovative data and AI products across payments, subscription, finance domains leveraging modern AWS technology stack. Lead agile ceremonies including planning, refinements, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
• Team Leadership and Management: guide and mentor data and analytics teams, support team development and allocate team and budget resources effectively.
• Strategy and Planning: Strong outcome focus to ensure that data and analytics strategies and planning are aligned with the company's objectives and technology roadmap.
• Product Management: Oversee all phases of data platform and product development from conception to deployment, ensuring they meet quality standards and deadlines.
• Technical Expertise: Provide technical leadership in areas like data warehousing, data lakes, ETL pipelines, real-time processing, ML pipelines and financial reporting. Improve and enforce development best practices (coding standards, testing, CI/CD, etc.).
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with product management and client-facing teams to understand analytics and data quality needs and deliver effective solutions.
• Quality Assurance and Support: Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of data products with end-to-end ownership mindset. Lead technical issue resolution, act as point of escalation for technical blockers and critical bugs and manage technical debt.

Still have questions?

Whether it’s a role-specific question or a question about life at Cleverbridge, we would love to chat with you and we’ll do our best to respond as quickly as possible.