Engineering Manager, Data Analytics, Hamburg (f/m/d)

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at www.verve.com.

Who You Are

Join our Data Analytics team at Verve, where you'll oversee the architecture supporting our ad exchanges' data, processing millions of requests per second at terabyte scale. You’ll ensure low-latency, cost-efficient data access and support engaging UI/UX experiences for BI, analytics, and data science applications.

Key responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, and maintaining platform stability. Our mission is to enable "data-driven decisions at your fingertips," and you’ll play a pivotal role in providing the system for all business decisions. This hands-on role (70% engineering, 30% management) reports to the VP of Data Intelligence Platforms. You'll drive technology advancements while leading and mentoring your team.

What You Will Do

Lead and Manage

• This role is 70% hands on, enhancing and supporting data pipeline and analytics components
• Lead and manage a team of on-site and remote engineers
• Do performance reviews
• Define team charter, budgets, and hiring plan

Domain

• In this role, your main focus would be around data warehouses to provide users efficient insights into our ad tech platform
• Ensure efficient and flexible data schema
• Ensure engine performance and reliability
• Efficient SQL-based transformations
• Cost-efficient analytical solutions
• Writing simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with a focus on solid technical stability and great user experience
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations in terms of security, and data privacy applied in the data processing layer
• Defining and implementing security measures according to best practices

Collaborative Work

• Work closely with product and reporting teams to provide accurate on-time and organize fast and easy access to them
• Design end-to-end DWH solutions, working closely with the data processing and data science engineering teams
• Ability to articulate business requirements and bridge the gap between development teams and stakeholders
• Ability to present business and technical issues, ideas, and recommendations in verbal, written, and presentation formats using storytelling and logical arguments
• Collaborate with teams across the globe in different time zones
• Extend successful solutions and optimization to sister companies in Verve
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand project functional requirements and objectives from a data processing perspective

Requirements

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience working as a Data/DWH Engineer in industry is a must, where you have gained hands-on experience delivering DWH/OLAP solutions

• 3+ years of experience leading a small team of highly productive engineers

• First experiences in managing individual contributors

• Proven experience in owning the products and driving them to the end, all the way from gathering requirements, development, testing, and deployment to ensuring high availability post-deployment

• OLAP engine (preferably Vertica, BigQuery), MPP engines(e.g Trino/Presto, Impala, ClickHouse), SQL (understanding plans, troubleshooting, window functions)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field

• Cloud platforms: preferably GCP

• Programming languages: Python and/or JVM

Nice to have

• ELT/ETL: DBT, Airflow (Apache NiFi)

• BI tools (Looker, Tableau, AWS QuickSight, etc)

• AdTech knowledge

• Open-source committer/contributor / PMC in any of Apache big data open-source technologies

• Exposure to Automation, and DevOps (Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines)

What We Offer

• Join one of the top privacy-first omnichannel ad platforms and gaming companies

• Be part of a multicultural team (55+ nationalities) that is bringing advertising to the next level

• Benefit from working with some of the most experienced professionals in our industry and constantly grow with us

• You will learn and evolve in an empowering environment characterized by entrepreneurial actions

• Responsibility, independence, and an opportunity to participate in projects that have a significant impact on Verve’s success

• 3 Wellness days per year to help you maintain your well-being (in Q1, Q2 and Q3)

• Enhance your professional skills with a yearly training budget and improve your language skills through German and/or English classes.

• Work and Travel Program (monthly raffle after 2 years of employment)

• We are happy to build a great team together and we appreciate your help through our Employee Referral Bonus

• Align your interests with the company's success and take part in our Employee Shares Purchase Plan

• You will be entitled to 27 holidays per year in addition to any of the public/bank holidays

• Personalized Benefits Platform; with a budget of 100 EUR/month, you can choose the benefits that fit you best from the following options:

  • Internet allowance

  • Mobility allowance such as BVG/HVV tickets and car/bicycle rental

  • Kindergarten, daycare center subsidy

  • Sport membership and personal development

  • Shopping vouchers

• Enjoy food and beverage benefits with colleagues and have fun during team events

• Take advantage of our Employee offers and discounts

• Corporate Pension Scheme

Verve Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. #LI-Hybrid