Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Platform

Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Platform

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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:

• 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