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Ingenico is building a modern, scalable, and secure Data Platform to support strategic decision-making, advanced analytics, and data-driven products used worldwide. To accelerate this journey, we are looking for a Lead Data to structure, grow, and lead our Data Platform team.

As Lead Data, you will drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of Ingenico’s Data Platform. You will lead a small but skilled team of Data Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring the delivery of robust, reliable, and high-quality data foundations.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, business and compliance stakeholders to build a platform that is secure, scalable, and aligned with the needs of the company.

This is a hands-on leadership role blending technical ownership, team management, and data architecture expertise.

What You’ll Do:

Data Platform Strategy & Architecture

· Define and execute the architecture of the Data Platform (data ingestion, processing, storage, quality, governance).

· Establish best practices for data modeling, data pipelines, documentation, and monitoring.

· Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and performance to support business intelligence and data products.

· Implement and enforce data governance, including data quality and access control.

Team Leadership & Management

· Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of Data Engineers and Data Analysts.

· Organize team workload, priorities, and delivery roadmap.

· Promote a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

· Support hiring and onboarding as the team grows.

Execution & Delivery

· Oversee the design and implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines, batch and streaming processes.

· Partner with product and business teams to understand data needs and deliver high-value datasets.

· Work closely with cloud/platform teams to ensure alignment with infrastructure and security standards.

· Guarantee high availability, cost control, and strong operational practices (monitoring, incident response).

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

· Act as the primary point of contact for all Data Platform topics.

· Communicate clearly about technical choices, data quality, and delivery timelines.

· Work cross-functionally with engineering leads, product managers, data consumers, finance, and compliance teams.

What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

· Strong experience in building and operating cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).

· Solid background in data engineering: ETL/ELT, SQL, distributed processing (Spark).

· Experience with data modeling.

· Proficiency with modern data stack tools (Databricks, …).

· Strong knowledge of data governance, quality and security principles.

Leadership & Management

· Experience leading or mentoring data teams (engineering and/or analytics).

· Ability to coordinate delivery, prioritize, and set a technical vision.

· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Problem-Solving & Execution

· Strong analytical mindset and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

· Hands-on mindset with a high sense of ownership.

· Rigorous, organized, and able to operate in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

· Experience building a Data Platform from scratch or re-architecting an existing one.

· Background in BI, DataOps, or MLOps.

Additional Requirements:

· Fluent English (written and spoken).

· Paris-based with hybrid work environment.

As part of our values, we embrace diversity and inclusion at Ingenico. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

Ingenico welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We want to adapt our processes and create a safe work environment that welcomes everyone.

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