Senior/Lead Data Engineer (Databricks)

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Hiring Remotely in Poland
Remote
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
Lead the technical direction of a Databricks-based data platform by building reusable frameworks, automation, testing standards, and reliable data pipelines. Improve data quality, lineage, observability, schema management, developer experience, and customer onboarding. Apply AI responsibly to engineering workflows, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and establish scalable platform practices across teams.
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Join our team to shape the technical direction of a data platform that makes complex industrial data usable, reliable, and scalable. Build reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation that simplify customer onboarding and help engineering teams deliver safer, more consistent data pipelines. Work closely with engineers and domain experts to strengthen data quality, platform reliability, and developer experience while applying AI pragmatically to improve engineering productivity.

Our Client was established with the mission to fundamentally transform the execution of capital projects and operations. Designed by industry experts for industry experts, our Client’s platform empowers users to digitally search, visualize, navigate, and collaborate on assets. Drawing on 30 years of software expertise and 180 years of industrial legacy as part of the renowned Scandinavian business group, Client plays an active role in advancing the global energy transition. The company operates from Norway, the UK, and the U.S.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Shape the technical direction of the data platform, tooling, and engineering standards
  • Design and improve reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation for data pipeline development
  • Define standards for testing, CI/CD, quality gates, and platform reliability
  • Develop reusable approaches to data modeling, schemas, data contracts, validation, and schema evolution
  • Improve observability, data quality, lineage, and developer experience across the platform
  • Turn recurring delivery challenges into scalable platform capabilities that reduce customer onboarding effort
  • Apply AI to engineering workflows, establishing clear guardrails and measuring its impact on productivity and quality
  • Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions and technical trade-offs
  • Document best practices and support the adoption of standard platform patterns across teams
  • Evaluate architectural decisions against time-to-value, cost-to-serve, and delivery predictability

Requirements:

  • Data Platform Engineering: Extensive experience designing, building, and evolving scalable data platforms and production data pipelines
  • Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, and establishing engineering standards across teams
  • Programming: Strong software engineering skills, with experience developing reusable frameworks, tooling, and automation for data processing
  • Data Architecture: Strong understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, data contracts, and validation across multiple source systems
  • Testing and CI/CD: Practical experience implementing automated testing, integration testing, quality gates, and deployment pipelines
  • Platform Reliability: Experience improving observability, diagnosing operational issues, and building reliable data services
  • Data Quality and Lineage: Experience implementing approaches that detect data issues early and make data flows easier to understand and troubleshoot
  • Developer Experience: Ability to simplify engineering workflows and turn repeated manual work into reusable, maintainable tools
  • AI-Assisted Engineering: Ability to identify practical AI use cases, evaluate their effectiveness, and define safeguards for quality and reliability
  • Architectural Judgment: Ability to balance technical quality, delivery speed, operational cost, and long-term maintainability
  • English Proficiency: C1+ with the ability to communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions clearly
  • Interpersonal Skills: Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build alignment across engineering teams and domain experts

We offer*:

  • Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
  • A competitive salary and good compensation package
  • Personalized career growth
  • Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
  • Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
  • Education reimbursement
  • Memorable anniversary presents
  • Corporate events and team buildings
  • Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers

Skills Required

  • Extensive experience designing, building, and evolving scalable data platforms and production data pipelines
  • Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, and establishing engineering standards across teams
  • Strong software engineering skills, including developing reusable frameworks, tooling, and automation for data processing
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, data contracts, and validation across multiple source systems
  • Practical experience implementing automated testing, integration testing, quality gates, and deployment pipelines
  • Experience improving observability, diagnosing operational issues, and building reliable data services
  • Experience implementing data quality and lineage approaches that detect issues early and improve troubleshooting
  • Ability to simplify engineering workflows and turn repeated manual work into reusable, maintainable tools
  • Ability to identify practical AI use cases, evaluate their effectiveness, and define safeguards for quality and reliability
  • Ability to balance technical quality, delivery speed, operational cost, and long-term maintainability
  • English proficiency at C1+ level with the ability to communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions clearly
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to build alignment across engineering teams and domain experts
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The Company
HQ: Valletta
2,135 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

N-iX is a global software solutions and engineering services company that helps world’s leading organizations turn challenges into lasting business value, operational efficiency, and revenue growth using advanced technology. Whether you need to build a custom solution, modernize your digital product or acquire extra tech expertise - we have the experience and capabilities to ensure your success. With over 2,000 professionals in 25 countries across Europe and the Americas, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud, data analytics, embedded software, IoT, AI, machine learning, and other tech domains. Being in business for over two decades, we have worked with dozens of industry-leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies creating value across a wide variety of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our unique combination of business domain expertise and technical know-how enables us to effectively collaborate with ISVs, tech companies, and enterprises of all sizes. Thanks to the strong tech ecosystem and partnerships with AWS, GCP, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Snowflake, and others, we bring extra speed, scale and efficiency to more than 160 organizations across the globe. N-iX is recognized by numerous industry awards, such as CRN Solution Provider 500, Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP, ISG Provider Lens™, Modern Application Development services providers by Forrester, etc

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