
Lead ETL Developer / Technical Architect - Big Data & Credit Risk (Databricks) (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG22 days ago
Bratislava, SlovakiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own end-to-end architecture for enterprise Credit Risk data platforms.
- Design scalable ETL/ELT solutions using Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Spark, and cloud-native technologies.
- Lead development of large-scale data ingestion frameworks and pipelines across structured and semi-structured source systems.
- Optimize data processing, storage, compute performance, scalability, resilience, and security.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable design patterns, coding practices, governance, and technology roadmaps.
- Review and approve technical designs, data models, and integration approaches.
- Design enterprise data models and implement data layers, ingestion zones, curation processes, and consumption models for Risk Analytics and Credit Risk.
- Implement metadata management, data lineage, data quality, governance, and observability frameworks.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, delivery oversight, and production issue resolution.
- Translate credit risk and analytics requirements into robust technical solutions across Erste Group.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Databricks Lakehouse solutions and establishing engineering best practices.
- Strong data engineering and data modeling expertise, including Data Vault, dimensional modeling, star schemas, canonical data models, and Lakehouse architectures.
- Proven end-to-end delivery experience spanning requirements analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, productionization, operational support, and continuous improvement.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams using Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe.
- Demonstrated technical mentoring, solution governance, stakeholder management, and delivery leadership capabilities.
- Advanced hands-on expertise with Azure, Databricks, GCP, AWS, and dbt.
- Expertise building scalable, resilient, high-performance data platforms for Credit Risk Analytics and enterprise data initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data quality, data lineage, metadata management, data governance, and platform observability.
- Extensive experience designing and optimizing ETL/ELT frameworks with Spark, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, and cloud-native services.
- Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, ETL/ELT design, data pipeline development, workflow orchestration, data quality frameworks, and metadata management.
- Programming experience with Python and SQL, and database experience with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Teradata.
- Experience with Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, and Terraform.
Benefits
- International community of talented and passionate colleagues with interest groups and clubs.
- Health-care contribution, above-standard medical examination support, a helpline for difficult life situations, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Work-life benefits including sabbatical, paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contributions, four additional holiday days per year, third-pillar contribution, and a MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful IT referrals.
- Full-time position with a legally quoted minimum salary of EUR 3,500 gross per month, with actual compensation dependent on qualifications and expectations.
Tech Stack
Apache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGitGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform
Categories
Data Engineering