Senior Data Engineer

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to take ownership of designing, building, and scaling modern data solutions. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across data architecture, data pipelines, and cloud-based analytics platforms. You will work closely with engineering, analytics, product, and business teams to ensure reliable, high-quality, and accessible data across the organization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable data pipelines and a growing data lake
• Build and extend data processing workflows using Python, Apache Spark, and Databricks
• Define technical standards, best practices, and reusable frameworks for data engineering
• Ensure data quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability across data solutions
• Support data modeling, data integration, and transformation processes for analytics and reporting
• Drive automation, monitoring, and CI/CD improvements to ensure operational excellence
• Collaborate across teams, acting as a technical interface between the data platform and engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term data platform strategy

Your Profile

• Outstanding programming experience, preferably in Python; ability to write clean, testable, production-grade code; able to write clean, testable, production-grade code
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with structured and semi-structured data formats (JSON, Protobuf, Delta format)
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, ideally on Databricks, and understanding of the medallion architecture
• Solid grasp of data lakehouse principles, data modeling, and data governance concepts
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI); familiarity with IaC and deployment
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS (cloud) or comparable cloud providers; familiarity with Databricks as a managed Lakehouse platform
• Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka)
• Proven track record deploying, monitoring, and maintaining data pipelines and services in
  production environments; experience with testing practices
• Able to work autonomously and take ownership of tasks end-to-end
• Clear and concise communicator comfortable working across engineering and data teams

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field

• 3 years of project/coding experience in a company

• Cloud experience:

• Databricks, AWS/Azure

• Staging, testing, Git, pipelines

• Distributed systems, data pipelines

• Python experience:

• Versioning, package management, requirements/environments

• Change data capture

• Data engineering experience:

• SQL

• Partitioning

• Data structures (tables, relations)

• Lakehouse