Team Lead, Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Where you will have impact
• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and long-term career growth.
• Be the technical guide the team can lean on for growing their technical careers and for collaborating on their technical work, while at the same time being strong with people, organization, structure, planning and driving delivery.
• Drive the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, improvements and scaling of the streaming and batch data pipelines that ingest and transform the massive volume of data powering our products.
• You are at the forefront of AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our organization, way of working and platform. You'll champion an AI-first development culture within the engineering team.
• Identify, estimate, plan and deliver continuous improvements with the team in data quality, system stability, observability, data pipeline performance, latency, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with product, other engineering teams, support and business teams.
• About our team

Requirements

• You are an experienced people leader with a track record of managing engineering teams, with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineers and driving their technical and professional growth.
• You come from a strong hands-on background in data engineering, with deep experience in ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, complex data transformations, and data modelling.
• You have a proactive, "can-do" attitude, viewing challenges as opportunities and inspiring a positive, solution-oriented mindset within your team.
• You excel at seeing the bigger picture, breaking down large architectural projects into clear, manageable tasks, and accurately estimating effort.
• You are a forward-thinking builder who views AI as a core component of modern architecture. You have a proven interest (or experience) in working with LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools to ship higher-quality code, faster.
• You get energized from optimizing technical architectures, structure, tooling, support and other processes.
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Benefits

Additional Information

Our Mission: Why Lighthouse? At Lighthouse, we're on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality's most powerful AI platform. We take the world's largest hotel data network and transform it into real-time intelligence that drives action. We don't just deliver insights; we empower businesses to make decisions that move revenue. With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, we are scaling at lightspeed. Our 850+ teammates across 35 countries aren't just building software-they are leveraging cutting-edge AI to help hoteliers be the first to act. Tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries trust Lighthouse to execute their commercial strategy, including every one of the top 15 global chains and thousands of independent hotels that consistently outperform their markets. With Lighthouse AI, the intelligence gets deeper. Decisions get smarter. Actions get faster. We help hoteliers be first to act. Lighthouse Values: Our guiding light We are Lumineers . Our shared values keep us on a collaborative path fostering a cultural and customer centric environment Pursuit of greatness : We're innovators who care deeply about our customers' success. Our team brings their best work, stays curious, and delivers excellence through attention to detail Meaningful work matters : We make every moment count by knowing what to deliver, why it matters, and how it drives Lighthouse forward Elevate each other : We don't just work together - we grow together. What unites us is understanding each other as people and working toward shared goals We're more than just a workplace - we're a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry's most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀 Job details ● 💼 Engineering Team ● 📍 Spain - Barcelona ● 🕜 Full-Time/Remote

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