Senior Manager, Data Engineering Product & Portfolio

Department: Data & TechnologyEmployment Type: Permanent - Full TimeLocation: BudapestDescriptionJob Band: L4As Senior Manager, Data Engineering Product & Portfolio you will lead our Data Product & Portfolio team. In this role you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of our data engineering roadmap, the holistic roadmap across workstreams in the data directorate and leading a team of Product Managers aligned to specific functional areas. You will work closely with our team of Product Managers and Data Engineers and collaborate with our stakeholders to understand their needs and translate those into business value driven data products.Key ResponsibilitiesDefine and own the product strategy and roadmap for the data platform and engineering capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder needs.Act as the primary interface between the data engineering team and upstream teams (Data Science, BI, MarTech, Marketing, Finance, Product), translating business needs into scalable technical requirements.Facilitate alignment across teams to ensure timely delivery of data products and platform enhancements.Manage and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring clear sequencing of work using Agile methodologies (Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria).Lead backlog refinement and input in to sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives in partnership with engineering leads.Engage with stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, manage expectations, and communicate progress, risks, and delivery timelines.Engage with Data Engineering team to ensure business requirements are translated in to suitable technical requirements and able to be estimate to a suitable level.Identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies, and escalations, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to roadmap execution.Provide regular updates to senior leadership on roadmap progress, delivery status, risks, and business impact.Lead and develop a team of Product Managers across the Data & Technology and Business Intelligence functions.Identify opportunities to improve team workflows, delivery processes, and platform scalability.What you'll bringProven experience in product management within data engineering, data platform, or analytics environments.Strong understanding of data architecture, pipelines, cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, BigQuery), and modern data stack components.Good working knowledge of SQL is essential.Demonstrated success in managing product backlogs and delivering impact in fast-paced, high-growth environments.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g. JIRA, Monday.com).Demonstrable team leadership and mentoring experience, with specific experience of matrix management across different functional areas. You have a pragmatic, flexible attitude, you easily adapt to changes and can deal with ambiguity with a strong sense of ownership.Must be fluent in English with excellent oral and writing skills. Additional European language capabilities are a plus.