Lead Data Engineer - Digital Bank

About the role

Artea Bank is building a new digital bank from scratch, with data at its heart. It is creating a new data team to build a modern, scalable, cloud-native data platform, and the Lead Data Engineer will take a leading role in defining the data engineering strategy and helping the team deliver high-quality solutions. This is a greenfield role: you will help create the platform and roadmap rather than inherit one.

Key responsibilities

• Define the architecture, technology choices, engineering principles and roadmap of the new data platform.
• Design and implement ingestion, orchestration, transformation and data processing capabilities from scratch.
• Migrate existing data flows currently managed by external vendors into the bank's own engineering ecosystem.
• Create the data foundations for future AI capabilities such as Conversational Analytics.
• Mentor team members, share knowledge and guide engineers technically.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, software engineers, analysts and external partners.
• Establish practices for testing, observability, documentation, security, performance and maintainability.

Required profile

• Strong experience in data engineering, owning complex data platforms or products.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable data architectures and leading technical initiatives and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to align technical decisions with business goals.
• A strong ownership mindset and confidence to lead in a greenfield environment.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
• Advanced programming in Python or another relevant language.
• Data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Prefect or Mage.
• Git, CI/CD, testing, code quality and observability.
• Nice to have: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, dbt, AI/ML or LLMs, Agile/Scrum, regulated or banking environments.

What we offer

• Salary range of EUR 7,200 to 9,500 gross per month depending on experience and competencies.
• Performance bonuses linked to bank, team and individual performance.
• Health insurance, pension savings programme, extra days off and flexible working hours.
• Supportive management and a growing organisation.

Candidates apply through the bank's online application form, with a deadline of 22 December 2026.