Location: Madrid, Spain (Remote — with regular in-person collaboration at a local WeWork alongside our Madrid tech team)
About MediaRadar
MediaRadar, 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.
With deep insights into more than 35 million ad and campaign assets and $280 billion in media spend, MediaRadar provides a single, interoperable source of truth that plugs seamlessly into enterprise analytics and AI systems. The result: faster, cleaner and more actionable intelligence that drives competitive advantage.
About The Role
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.
We are deliberately moving away from a locked‑in, vendor‑heavy stack (e.g., Azure Databricks) toward a versátil, 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.
Requirements

6-8+ years in data engineering / ETL as a hands‑on engineer, with some experience leading, mentoring, or informally guiding other engineers — formal peo

📌 Data Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 MediaRadar
📍 Madrid