Engineering Manager (AI Governance)

As the Engineering Manager – AI Governance working with our client, you will lead a team that is building and maintaining the infrastructure, services, and tools that power our clients AI Governance platform. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform engineering, and AI/ML governance — ensuring that model lineage, use-case traceability, risk assessments, and compliance workflows are robust, scalable, and future-ready.

Requirements

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team (backend, data, platform) to deliver core governance capabilities.
• Architect and evolve microservices and APIs to support AI governance use cases: model registration, versioning, lineage, risk scoring, and audit workflows.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and data governance teams to understand governance requirements and build appropriate abstractions.
• Own infrastructure decisions: containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes), observability, CI/CD, and reliability.

• Define and drive best engineering practices: code quality, performance, scalability, testing, and documentation.

• Partner with product management, security, and compliance to align on roadmap priorities, regulatory needs (e.g., EU AI Act), and risk mitigation.
• Participate actively in hiring, performance reviews, and growth planning for your team.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes — both technical and operational — to increase velocity without sacrificing governance quality.

You have:

• 5+ years in software engineering, 2+ people leadership and management
• Solid experience with modern AI tools and leveraging AI to boost engineering productivity.
• Strong background in cloud-native SaaS (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and architectures (microservices, containers, CI/CD).
• Familiarity with Java, React, Postgres, and tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Jira.
• Strategic, decisive, and transparent leader who thrives under pressure and drives results with a customer-first mindset.
• You must have work authorization to work in Brussels, Belgium.

Benefits

Flex funds

• Monthly allowance for flexible benefits
• Choose from food, caregiving, connectivity, fitness, wellness and more

Vacation

• 20 days paid; global minimum provided and varies by country
• Flexible scheduling

Birthing parent leave

• 14 weeks paid
• 100% base salary
• 3 week return-to-work program

Non-birthing parent leave

• 8 weeks paid
• Includes partners, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, foster care
• 100% base salary
• 3 week return-to-work program

Global Employee Assistance Program

• 10 coaching and 10 therapy sessions, free to employees
• Includes coaching, mindfulness, meditation and more

Collibra swag store

• Annual employee stipend to get free Collibra gear!
• New environmentally sustainable releases throughout the year

Short-term medical / sick leave

• 4 weeks paid
• 100% base salary

Caregiver leave

• 4 weeks paid
• 100% base salary

Bereavement time off

• 10 days paid
• 100% base salary

Company values

Our client is a company that is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. They realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category.