Senior Data Engineer (AFC area)

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Rīga, LVA
Hybrid
44K-66K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Designs and operates scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and sharing systems for anti-financial crime and compliance. Builds Spark pipelines on AWS using EMR, Glue, Iceberg, and medallion architecture; develops ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, monitoring, and data-quality controls. Collaborates with analysts, engineers, and banking stakeholders in an international Agile team, while conducting code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous platform improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join us as a Senior Data Engineer in Anti-Financial Crime & Compliance Technology team!

Yes, you can! That's our attitude towards our work, ambitions, ideas, and relationships. We at Luminor believe that anyone has the potential to achieve big things and encourage everyone to achieve them, professionally and personally.

Whoever you are and whatever your role is, with Luminor, you will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a local banking champion.

As part of our Pan-Baltic Anti-Financial Crime & Compliance Technology team, you’ll be building scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions that power our financial crime prevention controls and tools. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless data flows across systems, and help us move towards a modern, decentralized data architecture inspired by data mesh principles.

How You Will Make an Impact:
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve systems for data ingestion, processing, storage, and sharing

  • Build and optimize data architectures for performance, scalability, and reliability

  • Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools and frameworks

  • Design and operate Apache Spark data pipelines on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue, using Apache Iceberg tables across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers of the Medallion framework

  • Ensure seamless integration and synchronization across lending automation systems, retail lending tools and processing systems

  • Uphold high standards of data quality, security, availability, and performance within data mesh principles

  • Collaborate with analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver solutions

  • Perform technical specification and code reviews, integration testing, troubleshoot software, and fix defects

  • Implement monitoring and alerting for data workflows

  • Gain expertise in a variety of banking processes and products

  • Work as part of a cross-functional Agile development team in a Pan-Baltic, international environment according to data mesh principles

What Makes You a Great Fit:
  • Proven experience with SQL /Python and data warehousing

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, including performance tuning and development of scalable pipelines

  • Experience implementing lakehouse architectures with Apache Iceberg and Medallion layers, preferably using Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog

  • Familiarity with data pipeline tools like Apache Airflow or dbt

  • Experience with data warehousing solutions (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, SAP Sybase IQ)

  • Experience with ETL/ELT designer tools

  • Knowledge of solution integrations (real-time, message-based, event-driven)

  • Experience within the Anti-Financial Crime/AML domain is a strong advantage

  • Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently

  • Fluent English is required in spoken and written communication due to working on the Pan-Baltic level

Why You Will Love Working Here:
  • Gross salary. 3,700-5,500 EUR/month, which is to be determined depending on your level of experience and competencies

  • Flexibility. Flexible working hours, Hybrid work, and the possibility to work from anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Switzerland, and the UK (in total 90 days per year)

  • International teams. Teams that go outside Pan-Baltic borders, where people value challenging work together with good humor and having fun

  • Culture. You’ll be joining a team where things move fast, ideas flow freely, and change is part of the everyday. It’s a dynamic environment that keeps you learning, growing, and never bored

  • More vacation. Additional weeks of vacation are available to all employees who have been in the company for 1 year or more

  • Volunteer time off. We care about giving back to society, therefore, you will get additional days off for volunteering purposes

  • Paid leave. We are proud of our employees who are participating in military training. Therefore, Luminor offers 30 fully paid calendar days for military training every year

  • Health benefits. A competitive benefits package in addition to your salary that includes health insurance after the first 3 months pass in all three Baltic states, as well as Health days in case of your absence due to sickness without a doctor's note needed

  • Wellbeing. Access to tools and resources that help you feel good and be productive at work and in life

  • Professional growth. Internal and external training programs, LinkedIn learning, workshops, conferences, online training, etc

  • Special Offer for Luminor products & services. Enjoy special offers & pricing for products and services provided by Luminor

The application deadline is the 8th of November. We are looking for a candidate primarily already located within the Baltics. Please apply with your CV in English and PDF format!

Skills Required

  • Proven experience with SQL and Python
  • Experience with data warehousing
  • Hands-on experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, including performance tuning and scalable pipeline development
  • Experience implementing lakehouse architectures with Apache Iceberg and Medallion layers
  • Experience using Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow or dbt
  • Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or SAP Sybase IQ
  • Experience with ETL/ELT designer tools
  • Knowledge of real-time, message-based, and event-driven solution integrations
  • Experience in the Anti-Financial Crime or AML domain
  • Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently
  • Fluent spoken and written English
  • Primarily located within the Baltics
  • CV submitted in English and PDF format

Luminor Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Luminor Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Luminor Bank.

  • Flexible Benefits — Work arrangements are highly flexible, including hybrid schedules and the option to work remotely from the EU, UK, Switzerland, or Iceland for up to 90 days a year. Flexible working hours and mobility policies add lifestyle value beyond base pay.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions include an extra week of vacation after one year and options for two additional vacation days, plus fully paid volunteering leave. Paid military leave further broadens leave coverage for civic duties.
  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is described as fair relative to the regional market, supported by annual equal pay reviews and adjustments to keep pay competitive. Competitive salary bands for certain roles reinforce perceptions of fairness and market alignment.

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The Company
HQ: Tallinn
2,300 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Luminor is a leading independent bank in the Baltics and the third-largest provider of financial services in the region, offering services such as term deposits, savings accounts, and loans.

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