Head of Data Engineering

What you'll do

• Engineer, maintain, and scale Overwolf’s core data warehouse, pipelines, and data platform
• Design and manage reliable ETL and ELT flows across databases, APIs, event streams, business systems, and data lakes
• Own data quality, event tracking, governance, and the company’s source-of-truth systems
• Build data solutions for internal teams and external user-facing products used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers
• Partner with business teams to transform data needs into robust self-serve analytics and AI-assisted insights
• Lead and mentor data engineers, BI developers, and analysts while raising the technical bar across the data organization
• Champion accessible data tooling and help foster a data-driven culture across the company

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 7+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in a startup or fast-paced technology company
• 4+ years of management experience, preferably in B2B2C, marketplace, SaaS, or consumer-scale environments
• Proven experience building and leading technical data teams, including data engineers, BI developers, and analysts
• Strong hands-on experience designing and scaling cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake
• Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL and ELT pipelines, orchestration tools such as Airflow, and analytics-ready data models
• Experience owning data quality, governance, event tracking, and company-wide source-of-truth systems
• Strong understanding of SaaS metrics, marketplace dynamics, and user behavior analytics
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all levels

Tech stack