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# Manager, Data Engineering

- **Company:** Lighthouse Intelligence Ltd.
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, BigQuery, Cloud Database, Encodings, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Unstructured Data, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.buscojobs.com.es/manager-data-engineering-en-barcelona-ID-371838337

## About the Role

architectural projects * Interest or experience with AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools * Ability to optimize architectures, tooling, processes, and cross-functional collaboration * Professional proficiency in Python for large-scale data processing * Knowledge of data cloud tech, streaming systems (GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka), and cloud databases (BigQuery, Spanner, Snowflake, Databricks) * Fluency in English with excellent communication and stakeholder management Requisitos principales * Flexible time off * Alan Flex benefits: 160/month for food or nursery * Flexible retribution through tax-free payroll deductions * Wellbeing support: subsidized ClassPass * Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for employee, spouse, and dependents * Impactful work: products used by 85,000+ users worldwide

## Description

Experteer Overview As Data Engineering Manager, you lead a team owning end-to-end data domains within a high-scale ingestion and transformation engine, unifying hospitality data into a semantic layer.You'll guide architecture and pipelines, ensuring performance and reliability while embedding an AI-first culture.The role blends hands-on data engineering with people leadership to deliver real-world impact for hotels worldwide.You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to shape data products and elevate the platform's intelligence.Compensaciones / Beneficios * Lead and mentor a data engineering team to foster technical excellence and career growth * Guide teammates on technical direction, planning, and delivery * Architect, implement, and scale streaming and batch data pipelines for large data volumes * Embed AI into the organization and promote AI-first development within the team * Identify and implement improvements in data quality, system stability, observability, performance, latency, and reliability * Collaborate with product, other engineering, support, and business teams * Own end-to-end ingestion and complex transformations across multiple data domains * Turn large, structured and unstructured data into data products with actionable hospitality insights Responsabilidades * Experience leading engineering teams with coaching and growth focus * Strong hands-on background in data engineering, ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines * Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with ability to manage large architectural projects * Interest or experience with AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools * Ability to optimize architectures, tooling, processes, and cross-functional collaboration * Professional proficiency in Python for large-scale data processing * Knowledge of data cloud tech, streaming systems (GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka), and cloud databases (BigQuery, Spanner, Snowflake, Databricks) * Fluency in English with excellent communication and stakeholder management Requisitos principales * Flexible time off * Alan Flex benefits: 160/month for food or nursery * Flexible retribution through tax-free payroll deductions * Wellbeing support: subsidized ClassPass * Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for employee, spouse, and dependents * Impactful work: products used by 85,000+ users worldwide


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