Head of Data, TBAuctions
€90-110k
Digital auction platform for used B2B goods
Posted today
Digital auction platform for used B2B goods
101-200 employees
Posted today
€90-110k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring sustainable trade to a higher level.
Role
Who you are
- You think like an architect and work like an engineer: you can set a long-term technical direction and still get into the details of a Spark job or a pipeline that's misbehaving.
- You've led engineering teams before, and you know how to turn a roadmap into shipped, reliable infrastructure.
- You partner naturally with Product, Engineering, Machine Learning, Architecture, Security and business stakeholders, and you bring the same pragmatism to picking battles as you do to picking technology
- 8+ years in Data Engineering or Data Platform roles, including 3+ years leading engineering teams, with experience operating enterprise-scale data platforms in production
- Strong knowledge of Apache Spark internals (shuffling, driver vs. executor architecture, lazy evaluation) and experience building reliable, production-grade ELT/ETL pipelines
- Experience designing architectures that combine batch and streaming processing (e.g. Lambda or Kappa), including checkpointing, state management, exactly-once semantics and watermarking
- Experience with CDC technologies such as Debezium
- Strong experience with Databricks or a comparable lakehouse platform, and with data modeling frameworks such as Kimball dimensional modeling
- Experience implementing Medallion Architecture using a transformation tool such as dbt
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with data catalogs, data masking techniques and data governance platforms (DataHub, Atlan, OpenMetadata)
What the job involves
- As Head of Data, you own the company's data platform: making sure data is ingested, processed, governed and made available reliably and securely for analytics, AI, machine learning and operational applications.
- You lead the Data Platform Engineering team and are accountable for both the team's growth and the platform's operational excellence
- We're invested in Databricks and Azure today, but we're looking for someone who thinks beyond the current stack — in terms of architecture, engineering practices, open source opportunities and long-term capability building. You report to the CFO
- Own the technical direction of the data platform, including its infrastructure and budget
- Develop a roadmap that balances business priorities with long-term platform investments, and make the architectural calls that keep it scalable, secure and maintainable
- Lead ingestion and integration of data from internal platforms, SaaS applications, ERP/CRM systems, APIs and third-party sources, and build and operate reliable batch and streaming pipelines
- Develop and maintain our Medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture, and evolve the gold layer to better serve day-to-day data and BI needs
- Implement platform-wide governance — metadata management, cataloguing, lineage and access controls — in partnership with Security and Architecture to keep us GDPR and security compliant
- Enable ML & AI workloads through scalable pipelines and high-quality datasets, and build self-service capabilities for analysts and power users
- Lead and develop the Data Platform Engineering team, setting engineering standards, coding practices and delivery priorities
Our take
To support more sustainable trade, TBAuctions supplies an auction platform specifically for used B2B goods. The company's online intelligent auctions use a proprietary cross-border platform (ATLAS) to connect buyers and sellers, offering a seamless self-serve experience.
A feature of TBAuction's tech is that it is able to balance demand and supply, creating a robust marketplace that can best serve traders on both sides. Millions of products are auctioned through the platform every year, a testament to the value of TBA's offering.
Now pursuing global expansion, the company acquired industrial auctioneer Surplex. This move will support growth in numerous countries including Spain, Poland, Portugal and Romania. It also bolsters TBAuctions' presence in Germany, France and Italy, adding deep expertise in metal and woodworking.
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Westlandgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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