Senior Data Engineer

🌔 About the Opportunity This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to shape the future of our data platform. You will be responsible for designing and building the core systems to unlock value from our data as we grow. We are looking for a passionate engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges, from high-level architectural design down to implementation. Your impact will come from tackling technical problems directly while also mentoring the team and influencing the long-term vision. 🚀 What you will do As a Senior Data Engineer on our Data Platform team, you'll be a critical player in the evolution of our data platform. You will be a hands-on technical expert, responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the core infrastructure and services that empower our developers and data users. Day-to-day, you will: * Design and develop key components of our data platform. This means getting hands-on to build and scale the robust foundations our data and AI capabilities rely on, including real-time streaming, orchestration, data warehousing, batch ingestion and governance. We value strong experience in at least one of these core areas. * Take ownership of the estimation, planning, and execution of complex data platform projects, including new feature development and major service upgrades. * Improve and scale our existing data platform codebase, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with a focus on enhancing scalability, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. * Collaborate closely with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to understand their needs, gather requirements, and deliver reliable and well-adopted platform capabilities. * Write well-tested, high-quality, and performant code for data processing, platform automation, and infrastructure management. * Lead the design and delivery of complex data engineering projects, partnering effectively with stakeholders to drive these from concept through to successful implementation. * Mentor other engineers on the team, helping to elevate their skills and fostering best practices in data engineering through code reviews and technical guidance. * Uphold and contribute to high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation, and proactively identify and help manage technical debt.

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