Technical Team Lead – Data Platform (mfx) (onsite remote in Germany)

Work set-up: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Full time
Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
Work from: 
Germany

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Several years (5+) of hands-on experience building and operating data platforms in high-volume environments., Expertise in AWS Cloud services such as S3, Glue, Athena, and Redshift., Proficiency in SQL and Python at an expert level., Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, version control, and data pipeline deployment..

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead and mentor a team of senior data engineers.
  • Own the architecture, development, and operation of data platforms, ensuring scalability and security.
  • Automate platform operations and optimize data workflows for efficiency.
  • Collaborate with other teams to set standards and promote data engineering best practices.

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Scalable Capital Financial Services Scaleup http://www.scalable.capital
501 - 1000 Employees
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Job description

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe. The company empowers everyone to shape their financial future. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs and other exchangetraded products and set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios and is also adopted as a whitelabel solution by renowned B2B partners. With the European Investor Exchange (EIX) Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange for retail investors in Europe. Over 27 billion euro is held on the platform by more than one million clients.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

About the Role

As the leader of our Data Platform team, you’ll play a pivotal role in Scalable Capital’s data journey. Your team is at the heart of our data infrastructure, responsible for improving, extending, and automating our data platforms. In addition to leading and mentoring two talented data experts, you’ll act as a handson staff engineer, directly shaping our technology and best practices.

You and your team will serve as the goto experts for data engineering and platform best practices from data modeling and pipeline design to coding standards and security empowering other data teams and promoting a truly datadriven culture across the company.

Job Description
  • Lead, mentor, and inspire a small team of senior data engineers.
  • Own the architecture, development, and operation of our data platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
  • Automate platform operations and streamline data workflows to increase efficiency and minimize manual intervention.
  • Act as the first point of contact for other data engineering teams on topics like platform usage, data modeling, pipeline design, and general data engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate crossfunctionally to set standards and champion data engineering excellence across the organization incl. security concepts.
  • Remain handson: architect, code, review, and deploy critical data infrastructure solutions.
  • Drive adoption of modern tooling (including GenAIassisted coding) while applying critical thinking to recommendations and outputs.

    • Qualifications
      • Several years (5+) of handson experience building, improving, and operating data platforms in highvolume production environments
      • Expertise in AWS Cloud, especially their datanative service offering (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift etc.)
      • Expert level knowledge of IAM, KMS, networking, and security best practices in AWS
      • Expert Level SQL & Python
      • Skilled using Infrastructure as Code: e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
      • Workflow Orchestration: e.g., Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or similar.
      • Data Modeling & Data Warehousing: Dimensional modeling, starsnowflake schemas; experience with Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery is a plus.
      • Containerization: Docker; Kubernetes is a plus.
      • Deep knowledge of Software Engineering best practices—from requirements specification, version control, CICD, and testing to deployment and monitoring of data pipelines and services.
      • Ability to balance the big picture (strategy, scaling) with handson engineering and problemsolving.
      • Strong skills in data modeling, pipeline design, and automation.
      • Datanative mindset: you think datafirst and know how to design robust, scalable, and maintainable platforms.
      • Comfortable leveraging GenAIassisted coding while maintaining high standards and thoughtful code reviews.
      • Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing small expert teams.
      • Ability to act as a trusted advisor for other teams and communicate complex technical topics clearly.

        • Why Join Us?

          • Direct ownership and impact on the future of Scalable Capital’s data landscape.
          • High degree of autonomy, trust, and the chance to shape standards across the company.
          • Work in a modern, cloudfirst environment with cuttingedge data technologies.
          • Collaborative, datadriven culture and a supportive team.
          • Opportunities for personal growth, technical leadership, and career development.

            • Additional Information
              • Be part of one of the fastestgrowing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
              • Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and evergrowing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
              • Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
              • Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
              • Learn and grow by joining our inhouse knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
              • Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
              • International relocation support is provided if required
              • Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
              • Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
              • Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
              • Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capitals PRIME+ Broker
              • Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club

                • #LIHybrid

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Experience

Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
Industry :
Financial Services
Spoken language(s):
English
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Hard Skills

Data ModelingAWS Cloud ServicesSQL (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)ContainerizationInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Process ManagementData Warehouse ArchitecturesSoftware DevelopmentBigQuerySnowflake (Data Warehouse)Amazon RedshiftKubernetes

Other Skills

  • Mentorship
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Leadership
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