Senior Data Engineer

A hands-on engineering role building and optimising scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and Lakehouse architectures across a modern multi-cloud platform using Python, Spark, Airflow, and dbt.

Requires 5+ years of data engineering experience with strong expertise in SQL, CI/CD, data quality frameworks, and cloud technologies (S3, Athena, Redshift), with a plus for streaming and AI tooling experience.

Overview

A Senior Data Engineer position within an agile team, focused on building scalable data pipelines and modernizing a multi-cloud data platform. The role involves working with streaming technologies, Lakehouse architectures, and leveraging automation/AI to improve efficiency.

What you will do

Pipeline Development: Build ETL/ELT pipelines (Python, SQL), optimize Spark/PySpark jobs, manage Airflow DAGs, and implement dbt transformations.

Lakehouse Architecture: Design medallion-style architectures using S3 and modern table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake) with optimized layouts.

Platform Infrastructure: Create reusable frameworks, enforce data contracts, build CI/CD pipelines, and establish observability practices.

Data Quality: Implement validation frameworks, data contracts, and SLIs/SLOs for critical pipelines.

Your experience

Required

5+ years in data engineering

Strong Python, advanced SQL, Airflow, Spark/PySpark, dbt, and CI/CD proficiency

Experience with Lakehouse architectures, dimensional modeling, and cloud data warehouses (S3, Athena, Redshift)

Data quality frameworks, monitoring, and schema evolution expertise

Nice-to-Haves

Streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)

AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot)

Terraform, Kubernetes/Docker

Data catalog/metadata management experience

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