Team Lead - Sources/Data Platform
NewsWhip is the leading provider of predictive media intelligence, tracking and predicting engagement with the world’s news stories each day.Our platform is used each day by journalists at hundreds of top tier publications, and communications professionals at all 10 of the top 10 global PR agencies, dozens of international brands, and NGOs, international organisations and not-for-profits.As an Irish company, our product and engineering functions are central to our business. This presents a great opportunity to directly input into what we build and how we build it. There is a direct link between your work, our customers and the continued success of NewsWhip.
We're seeking an experienced technical manager to lead our Sources and Data Platform team, responsible for the development and operation of our high-scale data ingestion and processing infrastructure. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with excellent people management and strategic planning skills.Responsibilities:
Lead and grow a team of data platform engineers, providing technical mentorship, career development, and performance management
Drive the technical vision and roadmap for our distributed data platform infrastructure
Collaborate with senior leadership to align team objectives with overall business strategy
Ensure operational excellence of our data platform handling billions of daily events
Partner with other engineering managers and product leaders to deliver cross-functional initiatives
Drive architectural decisions and technical design reviews
Manage resource planning, capacity forecasting, and budget allocation
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
Oversee integration strategies with external services and data sources
Lead incident response and management for critical platform issues
Requirements:
5+ years of hands-on technical experience in data platform engineering or distributed systems
3+ years of people management experience, preferably leading data/platform teams
Strong background in modern data architecture patterns and distributed systems
Deep understanding of high-scale data processing technologies (Kafka, Spark, etc.)
Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Track record of successfully delivering large-scale technical projects
Excellence in cross-functional communication and stakeholder management
Proven ability to recruit, retain, and develop engineering talent
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
Nice to have:
Background in real-time data processing and streaming architectures
Knowledge of machine learning infrastructure and data science workflows
Experience with observability and monitoring at scale
Experience with budget management and vendor relationships
Knowledge of data governance and security best practices
Bonus points:
Previous experience transforming or modernizing legacy data platforms
Experience implementing DataOps practices
Background in specific domains (NLP, graph processing, time series analysis)
Benefits:
Competitive salary
Health insurance
Bonus for individual and team performance
Pension
Great working environment - remote first or hybrid model
An opportunity to help define an entirely new industry category
Excellent opportunity to grow in one of Dublin’s fastest growing home-grown companies
Our ethos:
We believe in maintaining a friendly work environment, a healthy work-life balance, and compensating our employees fairly for their input. You’ll be part of a team that believes in mutual support and education, and for a company where a work week isn’t just the gap between weekends, but an opportunity to do work that is impactful and innovative. We also love eating and socializing together, annual and seasonal company and team retreats, healthy and unhealthy snacks and other perks.