Data Engineer III
GoCardless2 months ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and iterate data models, schemas, and ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data processing.
- Implement and maintain scalable data architectures and pipeline orchestration, including scheduling, dependencies, and retries.
- Build data quality checks, monitoring, and validation processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Collaborate with engineers, analytic engineers, analysts, data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions.
- Improve data infrastructure and engineering processes through research into emerging technologies and best practices.
- Create technical documentation, share knowledge, and contribute to engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing data models and schemas for analytics or product use cases.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and ingesting data from third-party or internal sources.
- Experience with cloud data platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform and services such as BigQuery, CloudSQL, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, or equivalent AWS/Azure services.
- Proficiency in Python or another programming language commonly used in data engineering.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD practices.
- Knowledge of data governance, security best practices, and data privacy regulations.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include fintech or payments experience, Terraform or CloudFormation familiarity, data orchestration and workflow management experience, streaming and real-time processing experience, machine learning pipeline knowledge, and experience with data visualization or business intelligence tools.
Benefits
- Dedicated wellbeing support and medical cover.
- Work away scheme allowing up to 90 days outside the country of residence in any 12-month period.
- Adaptive Working with flexible work arrangements.
- Parental leave.
- Annual learning budget.
- Generous holiday allowance, three annual volunteer days, and four annual business-wide wellness days.
- Base salary range of €58,400–€87,600.
Categories
Data Engineering
About GoCardless
GoCardless builds a bank payment platform for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments via Direct Debit, real-time payments, and open banking, with APIs and 350+ integrations. It monetizes through payment processing fees and add-ons for payment success and fraud reduction. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, it serves 100,000+ businesses and processes over US$130 billion annually across 30+ countries.