Technical Team Lead – Data Platform

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios, and is also adopted as a white-label solution by banks and other B2B partners. The company's offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €30 billion to the platform.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team, including Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

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About the Role

As the leader of our Data Platform team, you'll play a pivotal role in Scalable Capital's data journey. Your team is at the heart of our data infrastructure, responsible for improving, extending, and automating our data platforms. In addition to leading and mentoring two talented data experts, you'll act as a hands-on staff engineer, directly shaping our technology and best practices.

You and your team will serve as the go-to experts for data engineering and platform best practices - from data modeling and pipeline design to coding standards and security - empowering other data teams and promoting a truly data-driven culture across the company.

Job Description

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a small team of senior data engineers.
• Own the architecture, development, and operation of our data platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Automate platform operations and streamline data workflows to increase efficiency and minimize manual intervention.
• Act as the first point of contact for other data engineering teams on topics like platform usage, data modeling, pipeline design, and general data engineering best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to set standards and champion data engineering excellence across the organization incl. security concepts.
• Remain hands-on: architect, code, review, and deploy critical data infrastructure solutions.
• Drive adoption of modern tooling (including GenAI-assisted coding) while applying critical thinking to recommendations and outputs.

Qualifications

• Several years (5+) of hands-on experience building, improving, and operating data platforms in high-volume production environments
• Expertise in AWS Cloud, especially their data-native service offering (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift etc.)
• Expert level knowledge of IAM, KMS, networking, and security best practices in AWS
• Expert Level SQL & Python
• Skilled using Infrastructure as Code: e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Workflow Orchestration: e.g., Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or similar.
• Data Modeling & Data Warehousing: Dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas; experience with Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery is a plus.
• Containerization: Docker; Kubernetes is a plus.
• Deep knowledge of Software Engineering best practices—from requirements specification, version control, CI/CD, and testing to deployment and monitoring of data pipelines and services.
• Ability to balance the big picture (strategy, scaling) with hands-on engineering and problem-solving.
• Strong skills in data modeling, pipeline design, and automation.
• Data-native mindset: you think data-first and know how to design robust, scalable, and maintainable platforms.
• Comfortable leveraging GenAI-assisted coding while maintaining high standards and thoughtful code reviews.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing small expert teams.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor for other teams and communicate complex technical topics clearly.

Why Join Us?

• Direct ownership and impact on the future of Scalable Capital's data landscape.
• High degree of autonomy, trust, and the chance to shape standards across the company.
• Work in a modern, cloud-first environment with cutting-edge data technologies.
• Collaborative, data-driven culture and a supportive team.
• Opportunities for personal growth, technical leadership, and career development.

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required
• Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the 'Deutschland Jobticket'
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club