Data Platform Team Lead

Join AMBOSS, a mission-driven company focused on advancing medical education and improving patient care. As the Data Platform Team Lead, you will be at the forefront of our data strategy, working closely with various teams to turn data into actionable insights. You will lead a small team of data engineers, own the roadmap for our data platform and integrations, and build internal tools to support the business. This role requires strong communication skills, a hands-on mentality, and a passion for making a difference in healthcare.

• Set the course for the data platform, owning and sequencing the roadmap across the data platform, ERP, and business systems integrations.
• Lead a small, senior team of Data Engineers, mentoring and growing their skills while running clear goal-setting and feedback cycles.
• Architect for scale by designing and reviewing core components, including batch and real-time pipelines, modeling layers, integrations, governance, observability, and CI/CD.
• Bonus: exposure to AI/LLM workloads or vector databases on the production side
• Hands-on expertise with cloud warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake) and at least one major cloud provider (AWS or GCP)
• A bias to action in ambiguous situations. You would rather make a reasonable call and adjust than wait for perfect information
• Excellent English communication. German is a plus
• Deep SQL and strong Python. Production experience with Airflow, dbt or comparable frameworks
• Hands-on fluency with agentic coding AI tools (like Claude Code) and a track record of using AI to accelerate engineering work
• Experience integrating with or building against business systems such as ERP, Shop or even Bank integrations. You are comfortable owning that layer end to end
• Solid grasp of data modelling, governance and observability patterns
• A track record of working closely with Commercial, Finance, Operations or Analytics stakeholders and treating them as first-class partners
• Proven CI/CD and IaC chops (GitHub Actions, Terraform or similar)
• 5+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, including 2+ years leading projects or people
• Operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where the plane gets built while you are flying in it. You like being pragmatic and bringing in structure without slowing the business down
• Staying hands-on as a leader. You are happy to write SQL, debug an integration or scope an internal tool yourself when that is what the situation calls for
• Translating between worlds. You take messy business problems and turn them into clear technical scope. You take technical trade-offs and turn them into concise narratives executives can act on
• Seeing the platform-level picture: designing for security, self-service and future scale rather than one-off pipelines
• Coordinating across many stakeholders. You move easily between an engineering deep-dive in the morning and a Commercial leadership conversation in the afternoon
• Coaching and unblocking engineers and analysts through clear expectations and constructive feedback
• Even if you don’t meet every single point in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. We’d love to hear from you!