Head of Data Engineering & Analytics - Fintech Engineering (M/F/N)

Own the data foundation that every financial decision at InPost Pay will stand on. We are building a scale-up inside InPost, and AI will flow through all of it. You would lead the engine room: from the first raw event to the feature that powers a decision to the report a board reads. You'd be a key member of the Data & AI leadership team, reporting to the Director of Data & AI, with the InPost executive team behind the build. Our word is extreme ownership .

Responsibilities

• Build a data platform that works as a business asset, not a cost centre.
• Feature store and lakehouse on Databricks, with point-in-time correctness, freshness guarantees and full lineage.
• Data quality by default.
• Freshness, completeness and drift are monitored, and engineers are held to the standards you set.
• Analytics that move money.
• Portfolio performance and unit economics become decision-ready numbers, together with Credit Risk and Data Product.
• Agent-first pipelines.
• Agents are production components, with guardrails, evals and observability, and you control their cost and latency.
• Governance as a speed advantage.
• GDPR-aware by design, audit-ready, and fast to ship.
• This is a business function.
• Every pipeline and every metric exists to create or protect monetary value.
• You will plan budget, tooling spend and headcount accordingly.
• The Data Engineering & Analytics team: hiring, coaching and performance, with Staff Engineers as your architectural anchors.
• Pipeline and feature-store architecture direction for every data product that credit and decisioning depend on.
• The platform roadmap, co-authored with the Director of Data & AI and the Data Product Lead.
• The AI-first engineering standard across the team.
• You understand every layer, from ingestion to serving.

Requirements

• Someone with 7+ years of experience as a Data Engineer and/or Architect and 3+ years leading data engineering or analytics engineering teams.
• A leader who loves data and loves building systems around it.
• Hands-on when needed , especially with AI on board.
• Proven in lakehouse and feature-store architecture at function scale.
• Experienced in data-quality, observability and lineage frameworks across a multi-team estate.
• Experienced in people management across Staff, Senior and Mid levels, plus budget and roadmap planning.
• Already building agentic systems in production.
• Fluent in English (B2+).

Preferred

• Fintech regulation awareness (CCD2, PSD2, DORA) Credit-risk or underwriting data Streaming/CDC Scaling a data function through rapid growth Vendor negotiation experience
• Why join InPost? Seat at the table on a core leadership team. Greenfield with a real mandate. You set the architecture, the bar and the team. A modern stack. Databricks lakehouse from day one. Real pace. A lean, AI-native organisation. We offer a B2B Contract