DWS Group

Lead Engineer– Data Platform

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22 days ago
Madrid, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise data platform capabilities across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Define technical roadmaps, engineering standards, and reusable patterns for workflow orchestration, scheduling, dependency management, and data processing.
  • Lead architectural decisions, proofs of concept, and adoption plans focused on scalability, interoperability, security, operability, and total cost of ownership.
  • Establish reliability, observability, and operational standards including monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, capacity management, and service-level objectives.
  • Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, automated testing, and self-service engineering capabilities.
  • Integrate batch and streaming pipelines across Snowflake, Airflow, and Kafka.
  • Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute directly to architecture and code.
  • Partner with architecture, security, governance, and application teams to meet enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in data or platform engineering, including designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Snowflake across architecture, ingestion, transformation, workload management, performance, cost optimization, secure data sharing, and governance.
  • Strong production experience with Apache Airflow, including reusable DAG patterns, dependency management, scheduling, testing, monitoring, and failure recovery.
  • Strong expertise in Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures, including topic design, producers and consumers, schema management, Kafka Connect, delivery semantics, and replay strategies.
  • Proven ability to integrate batch and streaming pipelines across Snowflake, Airflow, and Kafka.
  • Advanced Python and SQL skills; Java experience for Kafka-based services and connectors is beneficial.
  • Strong experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing; OpenShift or Kubernetes experience is desirable.
  • Understanding of reliability, observability, data quality, security, access management, and compliance in regulated environments.
  • Proven technical leadership in setting engineering direction, reviewing designs and code, mentoring engineers, and communicating with technical and business stakeholders.
  • Fluent written and spoken English, strong problem-solving and strategic-thinking skills, and the ability to use AI tools responsibly and ethically.
  • A relevant degree is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working with the balance between office and home working determined by the business group and discussed during the application process.
  • Flexible benefits plan with options covering healthcare, company perks, and retirement planning.
  • Inclusive workplace culture focused on diversity, equity, employee wellbeing, and collaboration.
  • Interview adjustments and assistance are available for disabilities or long-term health conditions.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaGitJavaKubernetesOpenShiftPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

Data Engineering
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