Team Lead Data & AI Engineering (m/f/d)

Your Mission

Lead, grow, and enable a high-performing team of Data and AI Engineers that builds the next generation of automation and AI solutions for the company. You will set direction, create a culture of excellence and collaboration, and ensure your team delivers reliable, scalable AI systems that matter to the business.

Your Tasks

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Data and AI Engineers, setting clear goals, running effective 1:1s, and supporting their career growth.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance: review code, shape architecture decisions, and ensure high engineering standards across the team.

• Drive the end-to-end delivery of advanced Data and AI-powered solutions, coordinating priorities, timelines, and resources across your team.

• Design, deploy, and oversee scalable cloud infrastructure for AI services and APIs, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities with stakeholders, then guide your team to implement solutions that streamline workflows company-wide.

• Act as the primary point of contact for your area, aligning with product, data, and business leaders to ensure your team focuses on high-impact work.

• Champion modern AI and automation practices within the team, creating space for experimentation, learning, and adoption of state-of-the-art tools.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Operations, or Software Engineering, including proven experience leading and developing technical teams.

• Strong hands-on Python skills in building scalable data pipelines, automation, and backend services, plus the ability to guide others in these areas.

• Experience leading teams that operate on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred: ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda), workflow orchestration (Apache Airflow), containerization (Docker), and version control (git).

• Deep understanding of AI principles: foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, evaluation metrics, and how to guide a team in choosing the right approach.

• Excellent English communication skills, with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives, aligning stakeholders, and influencing technical decisions.

• Passion for people leadership and innovation, with energy for building autonomous AI tools, agent networks, and scalable AI solutions in a high-growth environment.

What we offer

In addition to our great team, culture, and our shared goal of empowering people with data, there are many other things that make Statista a great place to work! Join us and benefit from:

• Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year

• Hybrid work and flex-time

• International team and social events

• Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options

• Free access to Langdock and all its amazing functionalities

• Career & training opportunities

• Attractive locations and modern offices

• Mental health support with OpenUp

Some of the benefits listed here apply only to the German entity and to Junior-level roles or above.

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