Role

You will lead a talented team of 20 engineers, organized into 5 distinct teams, and hold ultimate responsibility for the entire infrastructure, data pipelines, and services that power our products. You will define a vision, build a strategy, and ensure our platform can support exponential growth in data volume, use case and client.

Main Missions

• Lead and mentor 5 Team Leads, empowering them to achieve their goals and grow their respective teams.

• Define the strategic vision and roadmap for the Platform Engineering department, ensuring direct alignment with company-wide objectives.

• Drive the architecture and scalability of all our systems, from our video ingestion engine to our client-facing API.

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our cloud infrastructure, which processes hundreds of thousands of games each year and petabytes of data.

• Act as a strategic partner to the Product, Computer Vision, and Data Science teams, providing them with the robust tools and platforms they need.

• Effectively communicate technical challenges, risks, and opportunities to the executive team to inform strategic decision-making.

Why join us

• Domain: Your work will be at the heart of the performance strategies of the biggest names in sports.

• Impact: You will guide technical vision and be part of the high-level strategic decisions.

• Technical Challenge: Solve some of the most complex data processing and scalability problems.

• Growth: Be a part of a pivotal moment in SkillCorner’s story and grow professionally as the company expands to new sports, new usecases and new regions.

We are looking for a passionate technology leader who can seamlessly switch between deep architectural discussions and high-level strategic planning.

• 5+ years of proven experience in engineering management, with at least 2 years in a “manager of managers” role (leading Team Leads).

• 10+ years of technical expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale, data-intensive platforms.

• Mastery of AWS ecosystem and modern DevOps practices (IaC, Kubernetes, CI/CD).

• Experience in defining technical roadmaps and managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

• An excellent ability to communicate a complex vision in a simple way to both engineering and non-technical audiences.

• A strong product and UX sensibility, you understand that APIs and internal tools are products in their own

• Based in Paris at least 3 days a week

• Bilingual proficiency in English and French is required. Your role will involve communicating with our France-based teams and international stakeholders

• Bonus points for a genuine passion for sports and sports analytics.