Team Lead Data Science & Engineering (f/m/x)

bonial helps you save time, money and paper!

We are a digital advertising partner for offline businesses - we support retailers in their marketing activities and help them find a new audience. Would you like to join and be a part of digitalisation of retail?

bonial is part of Axel Springer SE and is the leading "Drive to Store" partner in Germany and France. Every day we inspire millions of users by connecting them to their favourite shops and brands via our platforms "kaufDA" and "MeinProspekt" in Germany, and "bonial" in France.

bonial welcomes both full- and part-timers!

INTRODUCTION

Our Head of Data says: "Data is one of the hubs between Online Marketing, Product, IT and Sales here at Bonial.com. New questions are raised every day that cover all facets of business intelligence, such as developing a prediction model for user retention, defining KPIs and events for an A/B test, integrating a new data source in our enterprise data architecture or supporting critical business decisions by translating business problems into quantitative terms."

Our mission is to transform data into knowledge to enable people to make smart decisions. As data team, we want Bonial to be more data-driven. Therefore, our role is to transform decision making process from gut feeling to scientific approach.

As the new Lead of our Data Science & Engineering Team, you will help planning and implementing new features and capabilities within our data lake architecture for the benefit of competitiveness, marketability, and quality assurance. Therefore, in addition to a high degree of people management, we also expect you to have a technical background to create a vision for the next iteration of our data tech stack.

Your future tasks include:

1. Lead a team of 4 Data Engineers and 4 Data Scientists with a focus on our Data Architecture and Machine Learning Platform
2. Proactively identify opportunities where data can influence our product & marketing strategy
3. Improve data tools, processes, and best practices at Bonial and within the Data Team
4. Work closely with Product & Development teams on company initiatives by building real-time data capabilities, integrating new data sources in our data stack and continuously improving our data governance processes
5. Ensure scalability and reliability of data processing processes

Your Profile:

1. At least 4+ years of experience in data field
2. You gathered first experience in people management or leading teams and bring soft skills associated with this, such as empathy, coordination, and helpfulness
3. A project manager who can manage the workload of the team, align projects with business priorities and value and communicate results & align expectations with stakeholders
4. A data visionary with a hands-on mentality
5. You got experience with Python, experience with an object-oriented language such as Java or Scala is a plus
6. Experience working with Big Data technologies as Airflow, Apache Spark and Hadoop, experience in the field of DevOps especially in AWS, Terraform or Kubernetes would be a plus
7. Knowledgeable of latest developments in data science and engineering to incorporate new techniques and technologies into our data environment and assess opportunities

What we can offer you:
Diversity - proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we aim to enable everyone to show up as their full selves. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and to being a safe space regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender, gender identity or gender expression.

Development - strong support for your professional development, backed-up by a feedback culture to help you identify your strengths and opportunities.

Wellbeing - we believe mental health is as important as being fit. That's why we're giving you free access to nilo.health, a mental health app. In terms of physical training, other than our awesome gym in the office, we also cover part of the subscription to the Urban Sports Club. We can also offer you a corporate pension scheme so you don't have to worry about your retirement.

Sustainability - together with our Green team, we offer you the opportunity to engage in projects that promote sustainability, environmental development and the impact that we make on our planet.

Flexibility - we offer flexible hours, a hybrid setup, and the option of working from abroad 30 days per year. We offer 28 days of holiday, additionally, you get an extra day for each calendar year (up to 30 days) and other occasions (moving, working on a social project, etc).

Modern office - Zen Rooms where employees can pray, relax or simply have some quiet time; fully equipped gym in the office, and a roof terrace for amazing social events.

Free lunch - whenever you're at the office, we offer you different lunch options - and it's all on us! Enjoy your lunch at a nearby restaurant that partners with us! Hot and cold drinks, fruit, regular varied and healthy breakfasts and other snacks at the office are, of course, always available for free for our employees.

Social Culture - which encourages people to start conversations, build relationships and participate together in the community through regular team events.

Visa Sponsorship - we provide visa sponsorship for those of you who are eager to join us from outside of Germany.

If you think you could fit the bill, we'd love to hear from you!

You can check out our bonial_people Instagram or read more about bonial culture and tech on Medium.