Senior Manager – Data Engineering

Senior Manager – Data Engineering (m/f/d)

In Germany - Berlin
| Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main | Hamburg |Munich

Elevate is Simon-Kucher's dedicated
service line for digital consulting projects. We empower organizations by
merging advanced technology with creative business strategies, transforming raw
data into actionable insights. Our goal is to deliver scalable, robust, and
secure digital solutions that accelerate growth.

What makes us special: 

• Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
• Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
• Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
• Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
• Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
• Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
• Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
• Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
• See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party

How you will create an impact: 

Client & Team Collaboration

• Enable confident decision-making by ensuring
  stakeholders have access to complete, accurate, and relevant data tailored
  to their business context.
• Accelerate insight generation by transforming
  complex datasets into structured, actionable outputs that reveal hidden
  growth opportunities and performance levers.
• Increase operational efficiency and scalability
  by delivering automated, reliable data flows that support fast-changing
  business needs across platforms.
• Present technical concepts and recommendations
  to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment with
  business objectives.
• Elevate strategic conversations through clear,
  intuitive visualizations that translate technical analysis into business
  language and executive-ready insights.

Data & Cloud Architecture

• Design and implement end-to-end data
  architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring robust data ingestion,
  storage, and governance.
• Collaborate with data science and engineering
  teams to optimize data pipelines and analytics workflows for AI/ML
  solutions.
• Establish data management best practices to
  ensure compliance, security, and high availability across the entire
  organization.

Infrastructure & Cloud
Management

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud
  environments to support mission-critical AI and machine learning
  applications.
• Define and drive cloud stack design and
  strategy, focusing on high availability, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Advising the implementation of infrastructure as
  code (IaC) principles, leveraging tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
  to ensure consistency and repeatability.

DevOps & MLOps Leadership

• Design, develop and manage robust CI/CD
  pipelines, enabling seamless deployment of AI/ML models into production.
• Orchestrate containerized environments (Docker,
  Kubernetes) for efficient application delivery and scaling.
• Establish MLOps best practices, including
  feature store management, model monitoring, and automated retraining.

About you: 

Experience

• At least 6 years of relevant industry experience
  (with a minimum of 3 in a consulting capacity) covering cloud operations,
  data infrastructure, DevOps, and/or MLOps.
• Proven success in deploying production-grade
  data and AI/ML solutions.

Technical Proficiency

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure,
  or GCP) and experience designing cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in DevOps, including CI/CD
  pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure
  automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and
  scaling high-availability environments for AI/ML workloads.

Operational Excellence

• Demonstrated ability to implement robust
  monitoring, logging, and security practices for data and infrastructure.
• Track record of optimizing system performance
  and reliability through proactive capacity planning and architectural
  enhancements.

Communication &
Leadership

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability
  to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Proven leadership in managing teams through
  complex infrastructure and data-centric projects, encouraging
  collaboration and innovation.

Educational Background

• A standout university degree in a relevant
  field, with fluency in business English and German.

Have we sparked your
interest? Simply click the 'Apply now' button to submit your application.
Please note that, for data protection reasons, we cannot accept applications
via email. 
Would you like to learn more about us and our company culture? Click here to watch our recruitment video.  

About Simon-Kucher

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in
30+ countries.
Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and
profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their
commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based
on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of
experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world's
leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and
inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to
be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right,
remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued,
and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of
course, our business. 

Your personal contact:
Charlotte Sever
recruitment.germanysimon-

Please submit your
application exclusively via the "Apply
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Better growth starts here. With you.

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