Vice President, Engineering - Data Business Unit

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 16 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

The VP of Engineering Role

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity where you’ll shape the future of Qlik’s data platform - spanning data ingest, SQL transformation, and our Open Lakehouse (Iceberg) capabilities, with a strong focus on AI. You’ll set the technical vision, lead a global engineering organisation of 100+ people, and drive the delivery of innovative, scalable, and customer-delighting software used by enterprises worldwide.

If you're energised by accelerating the growth of a major, global data business and elevating engineering excellence across multiple product lines, this role places you at the centre of that impact. You’ll partner directly with executive leadership to define product direction, align technology with business outcomes, and champion engineering as a strategic differentiator.

What makes this role interesting?

• Shape the future of a flagship data platform: You’ll influence product vision, architecture, and innovation across ingest, transformation, and Lakehouse technologies at a time of significant market momentum around agentic AI, enabling AI engines to operate on relevant, AI-ready data.
• Lead and inspire a globally distributed engineering organisation: You’ll guide and elevate teams across Israel, India, Sweden, France, the US, and more - fostering a culture rooted in technical excellence, ownership, and customer value.
• Drive engineering for scale, reliability, and world-class performance: You’ll define standards for quality, modern delivery, and resilient cloud-native systems powering mission-critical workloads. You will lead the team in the AI transformation of the business.
• Own the transformation to fast, predictable product delivery: Championing an AI-first mindset, scaling AI developer assistants, maintaining Agile discipline, and optimising CI/CD through KPI-driven execution.
• Play a pivotal role in Qlik’s long-term data strategy: You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and business leaders to ensure technology decisions directly support customer needs and future growth.
  
  

Here’s How You’ll Be Making An Impact

• Setting the technical direction: Define and execute the engineering strategy, identify emerging technologies worth adopting, and guide long-term architectural decisions.
• Elevating engineering performance: Establish clear metrics, enhance execution predictability, code quality and champion a culture of continuous improvement across global teams.
• Building high-performing teams: Mentor engineering managers, develop scalable team structures, support global hiring, and cultivate an inclusive, high-accountability environment.
• Ensuring excellence in production systems: Oversee the reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of cloud infrastructure, while strengthening incident response and operational processes.
• Driving cross-functional alignment: Translate product and business needs into actionable technical outcomes, partnering across functions to deliver cohesive, customer-centric solutions.
  
  

We’re Looking For a Teammate With

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven track record of scaling engineering teams and delivering large-scale, complex products.
• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Experience managing large software engineering (R&D) teams (150-300 engineers)
• Experience developing AI agents and the underlying platforms and services that enable their orchestration and operation
• Experience driving AI adoption within the R&D organisation (e.g., AI coding assistants, automated testing, or LLM-driven development workflows) to improve efficiency and software reliability.
• Strong experience managing remote or distributed teams, spanning countries, languages and cultures (Israel, France, US, Canada).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  
  

The location for this role is:

Kfar Saba, Israel

If you’re excited by the idea of building the future of personalized learning—and seeing your work scale across an entire ecosystem—this role is built for you.

More About Qlik And Who We Are

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What else do we offer?

Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs.

Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness.

Flexible, diverse, and international work environment.

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

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