Engineering Manager Customer Data & Engagement Platform (m/f/d)

Your Tasks

• Act as the primary liaison between Product teams and the Platform, establishing seamless integration and translating product needs into platform capabilities to ensure required skills and capacity are aligned with business priorities.


• Line manage and mentor a team of engineers, driving their professional skill development through regular 1:1s and conducting effective performance management.


• Lead recruitment efforts (hiring, onboarding, offboarding) in close partnership with HR/Recruiting, including managing relationships with third-party partners and talent sourcing.


• Advise engineers on technical solutions, architectural patterns, and technical backlog prioritization, ensuring adherence to platform standards and best practices.


• Deliver essential input on the long-term strategic direction of the Platform, including budgeting and resource planning for talent and technology investments.


• Build strong relationships and foster cross-functional alignment and collaboration across product teams and the broader technology community.


• Create an environment of psychological safety, open feedback, and continuous learning, acting as a role model to inspire and empower the team.


• Proactively identify and remove organizational or interpersonal friction points to ensure the team can execute effectively and efficiently.

Your Profile

• Min 5 Years of proven engineering experience, ideally within a product-focused team, related to Customer Data and Engagement.


• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience


• Passionate about people development


• Strong technical background to provide architectural guidance. Familiarity with Backend technologies (e.g. Java, Springboot, PostgreSQL, RESTful API design, Microservices architecture, data flow pipelines)


• Knowledge about Google Cloud Platform


• Comfortable with agile ways of working and cross-functional collaboration


• Exceptional communicator with empathy, capable of building trusted relationships and driving solutions.

About Us

This critical role is essential to the platform’s success, as the Engineering Manager will lead the development of our engineering talent while promoting technical excellence and coordination across Products and Platforms. The Customer Data and Engagement Platform Teams consists of data engineers, data scientists and backend engineers that are working on several product teams in the area of Customer Data Management and Customer Engagement within the platform.

Our best solutions arise when diverse perspectives come together. Diversity is key to achieving our vision of becoming the Experience Champion in Consumer Electronics. We value diversity, promote equal opportunities, and foster inclusion – join our team!

Additional Benefits

Job Infos

​Location: Ingolstadt

MediaMarktSaturn Technology

Department: HQ - IT

Entrylevel: Professional Level

Type of Employement: Full Time

Working Hours: 37,5

Persona: Job Requisition HQ Employee

Recruiter: Lea Ellerich 

Recruiter: Lea Theresa Ellerich