Head of Data Engineering & Infrastructure

We’re on the hunt for a hands-on, highly technical Head of Data to evolve and scale Overwolf’s data foundation.

As our Data Systems Maestro, you’ll own the systems that power decision-making across Overwolf – including our data warehouse, pipelines, platform, and the solutions behind internal teams and user-facing products. You’ll lead a talented data team while shaping a reliable, scalable ecosystem used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers worldwide.

So if you thrive on turning complex data challenges into elegant solutions, love building high-performing teams, and want to help power the future of gaming and UGC – join our quest.

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Engineer, maintain, and scale Overwolf’s core data warehouse, pipelines, and data platform.
• Design and manage reliable ETL and ELT flows across databases, APIs, event streams, business systems, and data lakes.
• Own data quality, event tracking, governance, and the company’s source-of-truth systems.
• Build data solutions for internal teams and external user-facing products used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers.
• Partner with business teams to transform data needs into robust self-serve analytics and AI-assisted insights.
• Lead and mentor data engineers, BI developers, and analysts while raising the technical bar across the data organization.
• Champion accessible data tooling and help foster a data-driven culture across the company.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 7+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in a startup or fast-paced technology company
• 4+ years of management experience, preferably in B2B2C, marketplace, SaaS, or consumer-scale environments
• Proven experience building and leading technical data teams, including data engineers, BI developers, and analysts
• Strong hands-on experience designing and scaling cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake
• Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL and ELT pipelines, orchestration tools such as Airflow, and analytics-ready data models
• Experience owning data quality, governance, event tracking, and company-wide source-of-truth systems
• Strong understanding of SaaS metrics, marketplace dynamics, and user behavior analytics
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all levels

Bonus Points

• Passion for gaming, creators, and the creator economy
• Ability to tame wild data dragons, conquer pipeline dungeons, and keep dashboards flowing before your first cup of mana – or coffee, for that matter