Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Platform Berlin, Germany

Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Platform

Berlin, Germany · Product & Design

About the team:

At SumUp, we empower millions of small businesses around the world with simple and intuitive financial solutions. Our Data Platform enables the analytics, insights, and data-driven products that drive smarter decisions and help our teams scale efficiently.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager – Data Platform to shape how data is ingested, stored, and accessed across SumUp. In this role, you'll combine technical depth with product vision to build high-impact platform capabilities that support teams company-wide.

This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll work closely with engineering, analytics, InfoSec, compliance, and internal data users to develop scalable workflows, evolve our Iceberg-based data lake, and enable self-service tools that unlock the full value of data at SumUp.

What you’ll do:

Lead discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap development for key Data Platform initiatives.

Work closely with engineering, analytics, security, and compliance to design and implement scalable ingestion and storage solutions.

Improve the resilience, reliability, and observability of the platform using data-driven insights and operational signals.

Improve platform performance and reliability using operational signals and insights from data.

Champion self-service tooling, automated schema handling, data lineage, and platform observability.

Monitor and define key success indicators such as adoption, data freshness, latency, reliability, cost efficiency, and error rates.

You’ll be great for this role if you:

Have a proven track record of delivering impactful products in complex technical environments, and you thrive on turning ambiguity into clarity and direction.

Bring hands‑on experience in data, analytics or software engineering, allowing you to speak the language of engineers and build strong, collaborative partnerships.

Use metrics such as reliability, latency and data freshness to inform decisions and continuously improve platform performance.

Communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, aligning teams around shared outcomes and influencing without authority.

Can balance multiple priorities effectively, delivering short‑term value while driving long‑term platform strategy forward.

Why you should join SumUp:

Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large‑scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an office‑first setup