Senior Product Manager - Data Lake (f/m/d)

Worldwide | Nov. 7, 2026

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Company: Decathlontechnology

Country: Worldwide

Type: Onsite

Employment: Full-time

Description:

Our Data lake Team is looking for a Senior Product Manager (f/m/d) on a permanent contract based in Lille or Paris

At Decathlon, we believe in the power of sport to unite and inspire. Our mission: through sport to make well-being accessible to as many people as possible, everywhere in the world. To achieve this, data is at the heart of our strategy, it guides every decision, from product design to customer experience.

At the heart of the Decathlon Digital entity, we are looking for our future Senior Product Manager to join the Data Factory teams.

This technological platform, global for the entire group internationally, supports the development of the use of Data and AI at Decathlon, from the calculation of turnover to the design of innovative products.

We guarantee the tools, scalability, implementation and compliance with good development practices. We support all business stakeholders on a daily basis such as Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists.

The Data Factory is designed as a Modern Data Stack, with a lakehouse as the center of gravity.

It is then divided into several teams, each led by a technical leader, with the ambition of working with an assigned Product Manager.

Our Data Lake team is therefore the fundamental building block of this mission.

Our mission? Provide storage solutions for the entire Decathlon Data Platform, while guaranteeing governance, robustness and scalability by default. A true pillar of the technical governance of data assets, our team manages metadata via the Unity Catalog metastore and data contracts, thus making it possible to build global observability of the platform (usage, lineage, etc.). A technical playground with high impact and international challenges!

The team is currently composed of:

• 1 Product Manager
• 1 Data Architect
• 1 Data Engineer
• 1 Software Engineer
• 2 Ops Engineer

Examples of current challenges:

• Improve our support offering to facilitate the user journey (documentation, incident management, etc.)
• Discussion with the Data/AI teams of countries and domains on their current challenges (sensitive data, private data, etc.) to define the priorities of our teams
• How to facilitate data governance? For example, integrating automatic data validation rules, data contractualization, etc.
• Rationalization of our offer and decommissioning of legacy

YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION

Our group ambition, that of improving the digital experience of our customers, leads us to a new customer-oriented approach, a product approach.

The Product Manager of the Data Lake team:

• Acquires an understanding of its scope, the state of the art on the market, the technical functioning of the associated tools.
• Represents our business users, understands their challenges and transcribes them to the technical teams.
• Supports the implementation of new features or products throughout the life cycle (demo, training, communication, documentation, etc.).

You will guarantee the evolution and robustness of this critical product for all Decathlon teams.

Your main missions will revolve around the following axes:

• Vision & Delivery: You manage the complete product cycle, from Discovery to coordination of Delivery in close collaboration with the Leader. You translate business and technical issues into a clear, prioritized and value-driven roadmap.

• Strategic Projects: You lead the End-of-Life (EOL) of our Legacy, orchestrate the migration to the new infrastructure and design the new spaces and functionalities on Unity Catalog.

• Governance & Operational Excellence: You ensure the fine governance of the metastore, the management of access rights and integrate security, performance, maintenance and FinOps (cloud cost optimization) issues into the heart of your roadmap.

• Functional Leadership & Synergies: You ensure the functional management of the technical team on a daily basis and you may be required to lead a cross-functional group of PMs on common subjects in order to guarantee the alignment of our overall product vision.

• Impact measurement: You define and monitor key success indicators focused on reliability, robustness of the platform and precise measurement of the use of your products. You co-lead the product budget with the leader.
  
  

WHAT YOU BRING

• Experience: You have at least 5 years of experience as a Product Manager, with recognized legitimacy and success on complex or platform products.

• Technical & Data Expertise: You have a strong technical appetite as well as a solid understanding of the issues related to data management, access and governance. Knowing how to manipulate data is a real plus for this position.

• Tech & AI culture: You master Artificial Intelligence tools applied to Product Management and you perfectly understand the underlying technical challenges (security, infrastructure, scalability).

• Soft Skills: User-oriented, you have a strong sense of service. You like to listen, dig into in-depth issues and propose innovative solutions.

• Communication & Unifier: You have excellent communication skills to popularize complex concepts, interact with both technical and professional profiles, and unite around your vision.

• Languages & Mindset: A fluent level of English (B2 minimum, written and oral) is required to operate in our international context. You are motivated, curious, ambitious and you have a taste for challenge.

• The Decathlon spark: You are passionate about sport, you want to share your passions as a team and join a company with a positive impact!

TECHNICAL STACK

• AWS S3, Glue
• Databricks Lakehouse, Unity Catalog
• Data contracts
• Business Intelligence: Tableau
• Compute and Orchestration: Spark / Scala, Python, Airflow, dbt
• Ops: Terraform, Kubernetes
• Product Management: Jira Product Discovery, Github, Confluence
• AI: Gemini, Github Copilot

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Hybrid work organization;

• Material provided in accordance with your missions and our societal commitments (Mac or Windows);

• A local project team within a global network (international career opportunity);

• Skills development and support (diversity of projects, internal and external training, etc.);

• Remuneration package (employee shareholding, monthly/quarterly bonuses).

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY

At Decathlon, we recognize the immense value that diversity brings to our teams and we continually strive to foster and cultivate an inclusive and equitable workplace: this is why Inclusion is one of our Human Fundamentals. We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply, because we believe that diversity of thoughts, cultures, identities and lived experiences makes us stronger.

Decathlon is also committed to offering an inclusive and accessible selection process to all candidates. If you need accommodation, you can request it via the application form, this will be confidential. These requests do not affect the outcome of the recruitment process.

DECATHLON DIGITAL

Imagine if technology allowed us to push boundaries and offer new sporting experiences. This is precisely our ambition at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of more than 5,000 experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud and cybersecurity, located in Paris, Lille and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging technological innovations to optimize the value chain, design connected experiences and give a second life to our products.

Let's change the situation for good. Our passion for sport guides us and we want it to continue. This is why we are committed to building a more sustainable technology model, reducing our direct impact on the environment, and creating a safe and inclusive space to learn and grow together. Join the team and shape the future of sport.

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