Senior Data Engineer – Partner & Platform Experience
Spotify
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Build and evolve high-impact data products e.g. pipeline and critical datasets that help teams understand user experience across platforms like desktop, TV, and partner integrations.
- Contribute to the team's growing use of AI and agentic tooling to improve how we build and operate data systems.
- Design and maintain scalable data pipelines and models that power analytics, experimentation, and data science.
- Improve data systems by setting strong engineering standards for performance, quality, and reliability.
- Develop tooling and automation to ensure accurate, efficient, and trustworthy data.
- Work closely with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to solve complex problems and shape data-driven decisions.
- Support and mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- You have strong experience building and maintaining scalable data pipelines in production environments.
- You are comfortable working with data modeling, transformation, testing, and defining metrics.
- You have experience with SQL and programming languages such as Scala.
- You’ve worked with modern data tooling (for example dbt or similar frameworks).
- You understand cloud-based data platforms (ideally GCP) and the trade-offs between performance, cost, and scalability.
- You care about data quality, governance, and building systems that are reliable and easy to maintain.
- You're curious about the business and product reality behind the data - you want to understand why things are built, not just how.
- You collaborate well with cross-functional partners and can explain technical concepts clearly.
- You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and finding practical solutions to open-ended problems.
- You enjoy breadth and variety in your work and may have a background in engineering consulting, or similar.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata modelingdata transformationdata testingSQLScaladbtcloud-based data platformsdata qualitydata governance
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingmentoringcuriosityadaptabilityknowledge sharingcross-functional teamworknavigating ambiguityexplaining technical concepts