Location: Madrid, Spain (Remote — with regular in-person collaboration at a local WeWork alongside our Madrid tech team)About MediaRadarMediaRadar, equips marketing, sales and analytics leaders with the intelligence they need to stay ahead. Our platform delivers always-on, AI-enabled Creative, Competitive, Commercial and Market Intelligence—spanning ad strategy, media spend, creative assets and brand messaging across 30+ media channels and five million brands.
We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to join our Madrid-based team and take ownership of our data delivery lifecycle — driving the end-to-end delivery of complex data projects while managing and mentoring a growing team of data engineers. This is a player-coach role: at least for now, you will remain deeply hands-on — writing code, designing schemas, and building proofs-of-concept alongside your team — rather than stepping into a purely managerial capacity.
Azure Databricks) toward a adaptable, largely open-source architecture that keeps our options open.



You will be in the engine room of that re-architecture — writing code, designing schemas, tuning queries, and helping prove out tools such as ClickHouse, dbt, and open-source orchestration frameworks before we adopt them at scale — while also mentoring your team to do the same and championing AI-assisted development practices (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) across the group.
What You've Done:6-8+ years in data engineering / ETL as a hands-on engineer, with some experience leading, mentoring, or informally guiding other engineers — formal people-management experience is a plus but not a requirement, given the hands-on nature of this role todayStrong SQL and RDBMS skills with solid, hands-on experience in SQL Server and Postgres — schema design, performance tuning, and complex query optimizationHands‐on experience with tools such as dbt, ClickHouse, and open‐source pipeline / orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), with the judgment to choo

📌 Data Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 MediaRadar
📍 Madrid