Hybrid from Lisbon office

Usercentrics is a global leader in data privacy and privacy-led marketing solutions. We believe there is no need for a trade-off between growth and privacy compliance. Our vision is to unlock the potential of data privacy to empower a thriving digital ecosystem. We work with companies to create a healthy balance between data-driven business and privacy-led marketing for every size of enterprise. Our customers build trust with their users through improved transparency and control to drastically improve marketing and monetization, while achieving full privacy compliance.We’re looking for a DataOps Manager to lead our Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams. This role sits at the heart of our Operations organization, ensuring our data platform is secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient.You’ll own the full ELT / ETL lifecycle, lead the Azure-to-BigQuery migration, and build systems that transform raw data into trusted, accessible, and business-ready assets. The role requires a strong operations mindset, with a focus on process reliability, performance, security, cost control, and clear accountability.

You’ll also play a vital role in defining business logic, promoting documentation best practices, and acting as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders — enabling data products that are trustworthy, well-understood, and impactful.

• Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers

• Drive the full ELT / ETL process, including ingestion (Airbyte), transformation (dbt), and orchestration (Orchestra)

• Lead the migration from Azure to BigQuery, ensuring stability and scalability throughout

• Maintain a strong focus on data quality, governance, lineage, and security

• Monitor and optimize data platform performance and cost-efficiency

• Define and implement clear, versioned, and documented business logic

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics to unlock value from data

• Support and structure tracking instrumentation and event data modeling (Amplitude, Segment, etc.)

• Prepare data for AI and ML applications in collaboration with cross-functional teams

• Champion excellent documentation and observability practices

• Act as a connector between technical implementation and business context, helping teams understand how data flows, what it means, and how to use it responsibly

• Help shape hiring, career development, and ways of working within the DataOps team

• Proven experience leading DataOps, Data Engineering, or Analytics Engineering teams

• Deep hands-on experience with data pipelines, orchestration, warehousing, and ELT architectures

• Strong technical skills with BigQuery, Airbyte, Orchestra, and dbt

• Experience with Azure Data Stack and migrating to modern cloud data platforms

• Strong operations mindset — you think in terms of stability, SLAs, monitoring, and process excellence

• Track record of defining and maintaining clear business rules and transformation logic

• Passion for documentation and building reproducible, transparent data systems

• Excellent communication skills — able to speak both the language of engineers and business stakeholders

• Background in SaaS or product-led environments is a big plus

• Familiarity with tracking frameworks and product analytics data (Amplitude, Segment, etc.) is a plus.

• Experience supporting AI and ML data readiness, and excitement for AI-powered use casesNice to have: 

• Experience with data observability and testing frameworks (e.g. Great Expectations, dbt tests, Monte Carlo)

• Familiarity with data governance, privacy regulations, and consent data flows

• Prior exposure to data democratization and building self-serve data environments

• Experience working with Business Intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Metabase, Looker)

• Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together

• Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally

• Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects

• Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)

• We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online

• You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being