Flow Traders is looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead the data department in our Amsterdam office and partner with other technology teams like quantitative research, trading, risk, finance and compliance to align data priorities with business goals. In this role you will define and maintain roadmaps for Data Platform, Core Data, and BI aligned to our company’s priorities and translate our objectives into milestones, as well as champion platform and data product thinking (clear interfaces, documented contracts and self-serving capabilities that increase adoption and reduce operational load). You will manage project priorities, dependencies and risks ensuring a timely, high-quality delivery of software, datasets and reports and you will establish operational rituals like quarterly / iterative planning, change management, release practices and delivery reviews. Overall, you will drive operational excellence when it comes to incident response, blameless postmortems, runbooks and continuous improvement. What you will do: People management and team success: Own career development, coaching, growth plans, performance reviews, and promotions Build and scale the team: hiring, headcount planning, on-boarding, resource allocation, and vendor management Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning Run effective team practices: 1:1s, team meetings, feedback cycles, and team-buildings Domain accountability across the data organization: Data Platform: evolve a scalable, self-serve platform (batch and streaming) with strong non-functional posture, storage/compute capacity planning, performance, reliability, security, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency Core Data (foundational datasets): lead teams building and maintaining critical datasets (market/reference data, orders/executions, risk), with robust modeling, schema evolution, idempotent processing, and reproducibility for both batch and streaming Business Intelligence: deliver trustw