Since day one, DataGalaxy has been guided by a simple conviction: data creates value when people align on it, adopt it, and turn it into business outcomes. Metadata is not the destination. It is the foundation that makes this possible. That’s why DataGalaxy built the value governance platform, a business-first approach that connects data and AI strategy to execution, IT teams to business teams, and metadata to business outcomes. The platform includes two core products: DataGalaxy Catalog and DataGalaxy Portfolio Center. Catalog is a metadata center to provide context, build trust, and ensure compliance. Portfolio Center is a product management tool to show value creation from initiatives and champion alignment from C-levels to business stakeholders.

Founded in France and rapidly expanding across Europe and the United States, DataGalaxy is trusted by over 200 global enterprises, including Dior, Airbus, and SwissLife. The company is committed to driving data culture and literacy by helping organizations deliver metadata to the agents and value to the people.

The role

Lead the Scan Team, responsible for the connectivity and ingestion layer of DataGalaxy. This scope is a core part of the product: it’s how our clients connect their systems (data platforms, BI tools, catalogs, warehouses, SaaS apps, etc.) to our data governance platform.

This is a lead-in-the-making role: we’re not looking for a Staff Engineer, but for someone with solid foundations and a strong delivery mindset, ready to grow into technical ownership and mentoring while staying hands-on. People management is limited, but leadership, communication, and reliability are essential.

You don’t need to tick every box - we value ownership, a learning mindset, and the ability to work collaboratively.

Key responsibilities

Technical leadership & ownership

• Own the Scan domain technical direction: connector architecture, ingestion reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Contribute directly with hands-on development (you will code regularly).
• Lead design reviews and establish shared practices (quality, testing, observability, maintainability).
• Turn product needs into clear technical plans, align stakeholders, and deliver iteratively.

Connectors & ingestion engineering (core scope)

• Build and maintain connectors integrating with third-party REST APIs and platforms (OAuth2/API keys, pagination, rate limits, retries, webhooks when relevant).
• Design reliable ingestion flows: incremental sync, idempotency, backfills, error recovery, reconciliation, and safe schema evolution.
• Normalize and map external data models into DataGalaxy’s internal model with good data quality and consistency.

Desktop tooling for connectors

• Maintain our desktop application written in Kotlin used for connector development/operations (configuration, debugging, validation workflows, diagnostics).
• Improve developer and operator experience: packaging, configuration, troubleshooting, and usability.

Quality, reliability & operations

• Apply and promote testing practices (unit/integration; contract tests where relevant).
• Improve observability (logs/metrics/traces), monitor connector health, and lead investigations for production issues.
• Manage technical debt: refactoring, dependency upgrades, CI/CD improvements.

Team leadership (light management, strong leadership)

• Support the team’s growth through mentoring, pairing/mob sessions, and constructive feedback.
• Lead PR reviews and help the team make sound trade-offs.
• Coordinate with other squads when changes touch .NET services or Angular UI.