Data Domain Engineering Director - REF5612C
HybridBudapest, Budapest, Hungary
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of domain data products, including design, development, operationalization, evolution, and retirement. Lead technical delivery across data ingestion, pipelines, transformations, APIs, and data engineering processes while defining and enforcing domain-level standards aligned with enterprise governance. Build high-value products on a unified data platform, ensuring operational reliability through service level objectives, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Partner as a technical co-leader with business domain owners to translate priorities into scalable solutions and coordinate with platform leadership for seamless delivery. Manage domain-level technical debt, hire and coach high-performing teams, and drive interoperability across a federated data operating model.
Required Qualifications
- Strong expertise in data product architecture and domain-oriented data product design
- Proven experience building and operating scalable data products on modern cloud-based data platforms
- Deep understanding of data engineering practices, including data ingestion, pipelines, transformations, and API-based data access
- Ability to ensure operational stability, reliability, and quality of data products through service level objectives, monitoring, and observability
- Strong understanding of data product management, including product value, consumers, lifecycle, adoption, and service levels
- Ability to translate business priorities into domain data products aligned with measurable business outcomes
- Experience working in federated data operating models and domain-based data ownership structures
- Ability to drive interoperability, standardization, and reuse of data products across domains
- Experience managing cross-domain dependencies and prioritization in a Data Mesh environment
- Proven leadership experience managing data engineering and data product teams
- Experience staffing, developing, and coaching teams with the right mix of engineering, product, and domain capabilities
- Ability to operate as a technical co-leader and strategic partner to business domain owners
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to align business priorities with technical delivery
- Experience driving cross-domain collaboration in federated data organizations
- Ability to build a strong data product mindset and ownership culture focused on accountability, quality, and continuous improvement
- Remote working possibility available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation
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