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Senior Data Engineer

Studyportals

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Eindhoven • Netherlands

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSCloudETLGrafanaPySparkPythonSQL

About the role

  • You design, build and take ownership of robust and scalable ETL pipelines with data quality in mind.
  • You manage the data with AWS systems like EMR, Redshift, zero-ETL, and Glue
  • You operate and continuously improve our modern data platform. You maintain and upgrade tools like Airflow, dbt, Redshift and Grafana.
  • You ensure reliability and high data quality in production. You keep an eye on pipeline health and cloud services, assess incidents confidently.
  • You actively shape our cloud infrastructure and architecture. You contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and confidently challenge architectural decisions for sustainable solutions.
  • You optimize performance and cost efficiency across our data stack and proactively think about scalability as our data and business grow.
  • You empower colleagues with great data. You support stakeholders, provide trusted second opinions to the whole team, and ensure our data assets are secure and documented.

Requirements

  • 4 or more years of hands-on Data Engineering experience in production cloud environments
  • Strong Python (PySpark) and SQL skills with a focus on clean, maintainable code
  • Experience with modern data stack tools such as Airflow, Fivetran, dbt, and AWS
  • Proven track record building and operating robust, scalable ETL pipelines
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, incremental loading and data quality practices
  • Having experience with streaming processing is a plus
  • Experience optimizing warehouse performance and managing cloud costs
  • Analytical mindset with a focus on root-cause thinking and sustainable solutions
  • Ownership mentality with the confidence to challenge architectural decisions
  • I'm looking for an excellent communicator. Someone with a positive and proactive mindset (love it, change it, or leave it). You are dedicated and you never give up
  • Fluent in English, we are a strongly international team with 40+ nationalities in-house!
Benefits
  • Competitive salary including a bonus and pension.
  • 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g., be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
  • Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
  • Flexibility to work remotely 3 days per week, including a remote working allowance.
  • Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year.
  • An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
  • A nice and fun office in the heart of Eindhoven; five minutes’ walk away from the station.
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Hard Skills & Tools
Data EngineeringPythonPySparkSQLETL pipelinesdata modelingincremental loadingdata qualitystreaming processingcloud cost optimization
Soft Skills
analytical mindsetownership mentalityexcellent communicatorpositive mindsetproactive mindsetroot-cause thinkingdedicationproblem-solving