SwingDev
Director, Data Platform Engineering
TLDR
Lead a multidisciplinary data organization and collaborate closely with teams to own and develop the enterprise data platform, enhancing data quality and accessibility.
What will you do?
Lead a multidisciplinary data organization, hiring, developing, and establishing career frameworks while bridging legacy expertise with modern platform capabilities.
Collaborate closely with analytics, product, engineering, and business teams to provide the platform foundation they depend on.
Own the architecture and delivery of the enterprise data platform across cloud environments, supporting batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured data.
Define and govern enterprise-level data architecture patterns and data modeling standards, applying them pragmatically across domains.
Develop integration strategies for source systems to enhance data quality, prevent technical debt, and optimize access to reliable data.
Establish the data product model with clear ownership, SLAs, versioning, and discoverability, shifting the team’s output from pipelines to trusted, consumable data assets.
Lead the design and build of the enterprise semantic layer with canonical metrics and business definitions that serve BI tooling, AI grounding, and operational consumers from a single source of truth.
Embed governance in the engineering lifecycle through data contracts, policy-as-code, lineage automation, quality checks, and access controls with auditable versioning.
Build the data infrastructure required for AI/ML workloads, including feature pipelines, vector stores, embedding pipelines, and model-ready data products across all enterprise data assets.
We might be a match if you…
Bring experience in data engineering, architecture, and data platforms, along with a track record of leading technical teams and delivering modern, cloud-based data solutions.
Have built data products with real users in mind, including managing SLAs and incorporating continuous feedback loops.
Have a hands-on background in semantic layer design and apply strong analytics engineering practices.
Understand how to implement governance-as-code, including data contracts, lineage, quality, and access as core engineering artifacts.
Have working knowledge of AI data infrastructure, such as feature stores, vector databases, and pipelines for unstructured data.
Bring deep data modeling expertise across multiple paradigms and know how to apply the right approach depending on the context.
Have experience leading teams with diverse skill sets across different geographies.
Are proficient in the modern data stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), as well as data lakes and data warehouses such as Snowflake or BigQuery, and understand how tooling is evolving to support AI use cases.
Recruitment process:
Send us your CV – it's the best way for us to get to know you.
Meet Katrina, Recruitment Manager.
Join for a 60-minute Manager Interview with Robin, Chief Data and Analytics Officer.
Technical Interview with Tomek and John.
Data & Product Interview with Margot, Lead Product Manager, Data.
Meet on the final stage with Marcin and Alicja.
and... welcome aboard! 👋
What benefits are waiting for you?
Salary
49.000 – 55.000 PLN + VAT on B2B
Basics
📝 The form of contract of your choosing
🌎 Remote work & flexible working hours
🤒 Paid sick leave
🏖️ Paid holidays
Health & Safety
💊 Private medical care with dentists & orthodontists package for you and your family
❤️ Group life insurance
🧘 Psychotherapists support — free online sessions with psychologists and psychotherapists.
🤸 Home physiotherapy
🏅 Multisport card & meditation apps reimbursed 50%
Working conditions & Development
💻 Gear with Apple Logo and monitor
🌱 50% reimbursement for courses, conferences, books & certificates
🇺🇸 Free access to private language lessons
🐕 6 Personal Development Days & 4 Voluntary Days Off
Extras you may like
🎫 Cafeteria platform — extra “stówka”every month to spend on whatever you want to
🧒 Nanny services for parents
📦 Concierge services – a personal assistant to help you to deal with your everyday matters
🎮 Chill room with table football & PlayStation 5
🍦 Free snacks, and ice cream in the office (every day, all year round!)
🍱 Free Friday Lunch in the office
🎉 Team building events — we party together several times a year during the annual Offsite & Christmas Parties, beer after work, or our #WinterEscapeMonth workation in Cyprus
Benefits
Education Stipend
50% reimbursement for courses, conferences, books & certificates
Free Meals & Snacks
Free Friday Lunch in the office
Health Insurance
Private medical care with dentists & orthodontists package for you and your family
Team building events
Team building events — we party together several times a year during the annual Offsite & Christmas Parties, beer after work, or our #WinterEscapeMonth workation in Cyprus
Paid Time Off
Paid holidays
Remote-Friendly
Remote work & flexible working hours
Wellness Stipend
Multisport card & meditation apps reimbursed 50%
SwingDev is the Polish arm of Hippo Insurance, an InsurTech company dedicated to transforming home insurance into a smarter and more proactive service. We leverage technology to create innovative digital products that enhance the customer experience and deliver impactful solutions in the insurance space.
- Founded
- Founded 2012
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
Platform Engineer