We are Raisin, a dynamic and fast-growing fintech company that is a trailblazer for open banking in the savings and investments space.

As one of the most successful European fintech companies, we build award-winning marketplaces to help customers gain better access to competitive savings, investment, and pension products. Combined, our brands Raisin, WeltSparen, SaveBetter and Zinspilot, serve over half a million direct customers from over thirty European markets and the U.S.

Additionally, we partner with more than 400 banks and financial services providers to help them source stable and secure deposit funding and also enable them to offer third-party products to their customers.

We are backed by renowned international investors such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Greycroft, Headline/e.ventures, Index Ventures, Kinnevik, PayPal Ventures, Thrive Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, and Vitruvian Partners, as well as Peter Thiel.

We are headquartered in Berlin, and also have offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, London, Madrid, Manchester and New York.

For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced (Senior) Director Data Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Data teams (20+ engineers)

This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the data engineering organization and system landscape,  an efficient and compliant development process, Technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s data platform, and vendor relationships.

At Raisin, we implemented a data mesh strategy in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).

The Director Data Engineering (DDE) leads both strategically and operationally multiple cross-functional data teams (two Data insights and one platform team). 

This embraces the six impact areas

• Delivery quality and speed
  The DDE is: 

  • accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their Business-owners in time, scope, and budget

  • responsible for the performance of their teams

  • resolving impediments for their teams

  • nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability

  • ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams

  • leading both complex technical and important business projects 

  • leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives

• Domain ownership
  The DDE:

  • drives long-term value creation for their domain

  • is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe

  • builds resilient domain expertise in their teams

  • has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams

  • collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders

  • Data Vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing data-related vendors.

• Team Data Strategy

The DDE:

• has a data vision addressing Raisin's long-term business needs

• collaborates closely with other  Sr. Engineering Leads, Compliance, Security in shaping and implementing Raisin's Data Strategy

• makes sure the Data Strategy is an essential atomic part of the overall Raisin Tech Strategy

• actively initiates, leads and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions

• is always considering the strategic benefits and price of

  • keeping an existing technical solution

  • introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)

• Team and Culture
  The DDE is:

  • fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams 

  • offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well

  • encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility

  • attracting, hiring, and retaining top technical talent for Raisin from around the world

  • proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members

  • ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams

  • organizing workshops/hackathons 

  • representing the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition

  • shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices

  • nurturing and protecting our culture of trust

  • initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)

  • recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams

• Process and Compliance
  The DDE:

  • drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, Regulation and data privacy

  • contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation

  • develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization

  • develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams

  • is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams 

  • actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt.

• You hold a university degree in Computer Science,  Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experience

• Leadership experience 7y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and people, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams

• Snowflake and Looker mastery, Strong AWS knowledge, Python, SQL, dbt, Kafka/or other messaging solutions

• Strong business mindset. 

• You are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations

• You bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills 

• You motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

• You possess solid data engineering/analytics background and distinct hands-on mentality

• You are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements

• You are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraints

• You are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus

At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which, connects more than 75 different nationalities.

You'll find us in our modern and open office in the trendy Kreuzberg district with a view of the Spree River, ideally connected to public transportation and surrounded by a variety of restaurants and shopping opportunities.

As part of our team, you will benefit from:

• Employee Development Budget of €2,000 and four full training days per year.

• Access to Babbel for continuous language learning.

• Hungry all the time? Snacks, daily fresh fruit as well as drinks provided at the office.

• Flexible working hours, home office and 30 vacation days.

• Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month. 

• Love cycling? With JobRad, lease the bike of your choice and enjoy tax savings, plus Raisin covers your monthly insurance costs.

• A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%.

• Do you miss being in the office? The Deutschland Ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month.

• You are moving from another country or city to join us? We will support your relocation.