Manager, Data Engineering

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Warsaw, Poland · Data & Insights

Manager for Enterprise Data Science & Engineering team focusing on measuring AI's impact on enterprise productivity and ensuring data health. This role involves leading a team, partnering with stakeholders, and owning the roadmap for enterprise data products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and Inspire: Manage a highly-skilled team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers in Warsaw, fostering a culture of excellence, autonomy, and "Dream Team" collaboration.
  2. Measure Productivity in the AI Era: Develop frameworks to quantify the impact of AI tools on engineering and enterprise-wide productivity. You will help answer: _How is AI changing the way we work, and where should we invest next?_
  3. Scale Data Health: Tackle the immense challenge of measuring and maintaining the health of millions of tables within our data warehouse. You will build the observability and quality standards that ensure Netflix's data remains a source of truth.
  4. Strategic Partnership: Act as a thought leader for internal stakeholders, translating complex data into actionable insights that drive enterprise strategy.
  5. Informed Captaincy: Own the roadmap for enterprise data products, making high-stakes decisions on architecture, tooling, and methodology based on clear context and data.

Skills

Required

  • Proven Leadership: Experience managing senior-level data engineers or scientists delivering high-impact work under evolving priorities.
  • Data Expertise: A strong background in data engineering, and analytics. You are comfortable discussing distributed systems, data modeling, and large-scale warehouse architecture.
  • Product Mindset: You don't just build pipelines; you build data _products_. You understand how to identify internal "customers" and deliver solutions that solve their pain points.
  • Navigating Ambiguity: Experience tackling "hard-to-measure" problems—like productivity or technical debt—using creative data-driven approaches.

Nice to have

  • Culture Alignment: A deep resonance with the Netflix Culture Memo. You thrive in an environment of high freedom and high responsibility.

What the JD emphasized

  • Measure Productivity in the AI Era
  • Scale Data Health
  • hard-to-measure problems

Other signals

  • Measure the impact of AI on enterprise productivity
  • Build data products that guide enterprise investments
  • Develop frameworks to quantify the impact of AI tools on productivity
  • Build the observability and quality standards for data health