Area Lead Analytics Engineer

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Vinted seeks an Area Lead Analytics Engineer in Amsterdam for a full-time onsite role with hybrid options to steer analytics engineering across Revenue, Purchase and Orders. This hands-on yet strategic IC will set long term technical direction, own data modeling standards and reliability, reduce technical debt, and mentor other ICs while aligning cross-domain initiatives. Ideal candidates pair deep SQL and data modeling with cloud platform experience, strong systems thinking, and clear communication to influence multiple teams. To apply, tailor your resume and cover letter to show architectural governance, reusable patterns, and measurable data products, outline trade-offs and future roadmap, and highlight relevant impact. Salary €86,600 to €117,200 plus benefits.

Information about the position 

We are looking for an Area Lead Analytics Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership and shape the long-term direction of analytics engineering across the Revenue, Purchase, and Orders domains. In this role, you will act as a technical lead across multiple domains,helping build a scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and future-proof data ecosystem.

This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on engineering with strategic architectural leadership. You will define architectural standards, strengthen data modeling practices, reduce systemic complexity, and ensure that data products and pipelines are built for sustainable evolution. In addition, you will have the opportunity to drive strategic technical change and consistency that scales in the wider data science and analytics function. 

You will work with a talented team of analytics engineers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and other technical stakeholders and  will sit at the intersection of hands-on technical leadership, architectural governance, strategic direction-setting, and cross-domain enablement. 

In this position, you’ll 

• Set the long-term technical direction for analytics engineering across the Revenue, Purchase, and Orders domains.
• Identify key intersections across Revenue, Purchase, and Orders, ensuring they are reflected consistently in data models and architecture.
• Own architectural integrity, data modeling standards, reliability, and operational quality across the area.
• Act as a central technical point of contact for cross-domain initiatives, helping teams align on technical decisions and priorities.
• Create reusable patterns, shared standards, and a common design language for analytics engineering across domains.
• Drive DSA-wide improvements in data product quality, maintainability, documentation, ownership, observability, and operational excellence.
• Reduce and govern technical debt to enable sustainable, predictable evolution of data products and pipelines.
• Translate ambiguous business and technical challenges into clear technical direction, trade-offs, and actionable next steps.
• Mentor Analytics Engineers and other ICs through technical guidance, design reviews, code reviews, and architectural feedback.
• Communicate architectural decisions, standards, and long-term implications clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About you 

You are an experienced Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, or technical IC who enjoys building data systems that are not only technically strong, but also understandable, maintainable, and useful for the teams who rely on them.

You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking. You can zoom into implementation details when needed, but you are equally comfortable stepping back to identify systemic issues, long-term risks, repeated patterns, and opportunities to improve how teams build data products across DSA.

You likely bring:

• Strong experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or related technical data roles.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade data models, pipelines, or analytical data products at scale.
• Strong understanding of analytics engineering principles, including testing, documentation, lineage, data quality, observability, reliability, and operational excellence at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails that improve quality and consistency across teams.
• Strong strategic and systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to spot dependencies, intersections, long-term risks, and repeated patterns across complex business areas.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams or domains without relying only on formal authority.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and translating complex problems into clear technical direction, standards, and next steps.
• Ability to balance local delivery needs with long-term architectural integrity and DSA-wide impact.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural trade-offs, technical decisions, and strategic priorities clearly.
• A collaborative mentoring mindset and a passion for raising the technical bar for other ICs.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Skills we value

• Strong expertise in SQL, data modeling, and semantic layer design, with hands-on experience on dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar)
• Experience building data products on modern data stack technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Iceberg, or similar.
• Strong practical knowledge of query performance, and cloud cost governance.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or similar.
• Foundational understanding of event-driven data systems.
• Comfortable working with Feature Stores, and ML facing workloads.
• Experience with BI and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar.

Nice to have

• Experience in marketplace, e-commerce or similar business domains.
• Experience with modern data warehouses, lakehouses, and data mesh

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities often apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. If you do not recognise yourself in all of the above, you might still be an excellent candidate. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply.

Work perks 

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• Access to a discounted gym membership plan
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted 

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work 

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.