Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer Date:  Mar 10, 2026 Company:  Location:  Suresnes, FR, 92150 . 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.