Data IT Delivery Lead (Agile IT Delivery Lead) (Data Product Management & Data Mesh)

TL;DR

Data IT Delivery Lead (Agile IT Delivery Lead) (Data Product Management & Data Mesh): End-to-end delivery leadership for domain data products, owning governance, compliance, and ROI with an accent on Data Mesh operating models, data product standards, and operational reliability. Focus on scaling delivery of data ingestion, pipelines, transformations, and API-based access while balancing technical debt, release/operations/quality processes, and cross-domain dependencies.

Location: Kosice, Slovakia

Salary: Final salary is negotiable; base salary will not be lower than 2 300 € /brutto.

Company

hirify.global is an IT and telecommunications services provider with a long-standing presence in the Košice region.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery of data product teams: design and scaling, roadmap prioritization, and strategic planning.
• Act as a technical co-leader with business domain owners and steer operationalization of strategic initiatives and programs.
• Manage governance, compliance, and return on investment (ROI) for a delivery segment.
• Build and evolve domain data products using the unified data platform (without building the platform), ensuring consistency and quality across domains and segments.
• Ensure operational reliability and stability of domain data products by meeting agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using monitoring and observability.
• Define and enforce domain-level data product standards (data governance, interoperability, quality), and manage technical debt and architectural evolution.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Data Product architecture and domain-oriented data product design.
• Proven experience building and operating scalable data products on modern cloud-based data platforms.
• Deep knowledge of data engineering practices: data ingestion, pipelines, transformations, and API-based data access.
• Ability to ensure operational stability, reliability, and quality via SLOs, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong Data Product Management skills: defining product value, consumers, and service levels; translating business priorities into measurable outcomes.
• Leadership experience managing data engineering and data product teams, including cross-domain collaboration in a Data Mesh environment.

Nice to have

• German knowledge (B2).

Culture & Benefits

• Work-life balance focus with a broad portfolio of benefits.
• Benefits covering financial support, learning & development, health & sport, and family/work-life balance.
• Base salary with additional variable and other financial benefits.
• Remote working possibility is available only within Slovakia (taxation regulation).