Data Products & Management Director - Fintech Engineering (m/f/n)

Job Description

The mission
Build a data-first enterprise. Be the real business value layer of the company, owning both strategy and execution.

• Agent-first systems. Agents are production components with guardrails, evals and observability, not experiments.
• A state-of-the-art ML and MLOps stack. Models are built, validated, served and retrained properly, on a governed Databricks lakehouse.
• One data and ML platform. Feature store, decisioning layer and analytics sit on one foundation.
• Data products with an owner and a number. Each one has a business case, a roadmap and a measurable monetary outcome.
• Decisioning in real time. Credit and risk decisions are fast, explainable and auditable.
• Governance as a speed advantage. GDPR, CCD2 and DORA are built in, so we ship faster than competitors, not slower.
• A culture of experiments. Every model and decision is tested, measured and tied to value.

Every decision and every model carries monetary value, and you will run the function accordingly: budget, headcount, return on investment, and accountability for results.

What you'll own:

• The Data & AI strategy for our fintech build, and its delivery.
• The organisation, built from scratch: Data Engineering & Analytics, ML & MLOps, Data Product. You set the structure, the bar and who joins.
• The budget, including platform and tooling spend (Databricks/lakehouse), and the trade-offs you defend at leadership level.
• Board-level reporting on platform readiness, governance and delivery risk.

Qualifications

You are:

• A builder-leader. You love data and love building systems around it.
• Hands-on when needed, especially with AI on board. You understand every subsystem you lead, down to the detail.
• Someone with 8+ years leading data engineering or ML organisations and 5+ years managing managers or team leads.
• Experienced in financial services, payments or lending data platforms: lakehouse, feature store, point-in-time-correct data serving.
• Fluent in Databricks/Spark at scale.
• Already building agentic systems in production (3+ years).
• At ease with VP/C-level stakeholders.
• Fluent in English (B2+).

Bonus points for:

• Regulated fintech or banking experience
• Scaling a data function from zero
• Vendor negotiation
• Multi-jurisdiction architecture
• MBA

Additional Information

Why InPost?

• Seat at the table. Core leadership team, executive backing, extreme ownership.
• Real scope. First hire, your mandate, your organisation.
• Real data.
• Real pace. A lean, AI-native organisation where decisions take days.
• We offer B2B type of contract