Team Lead - Sources / Data Platforms

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.