Senior Data Engineer (DataOps)

Become part of the most revolutionary transition to fossil free transportation in history!

A leading European fossil free transportation startup with offices in Amsterdam and Arnhem is looking for a DataBricks specialist. Join the transition at an unique starting phase of a new company with a real purpose, high aspirations and strong team spirit.

Are you the DataOps Engineer who wants to play a big part in creating a greener future? Do you want to make a change into the fastest changing industry and have impact on climate change? Join these industry experts and build your legacy into the most revolutionary fossil free transition in history!

As a Senior DataOps Engineer, you will design, build and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines. You will ensure the smooth flow of data from various sources into the data lake or warehouse and drive efficient data processing and analytics.

You will warrant the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data infrastructure.

To gather requirements and implement data integration and transformation processes, you will collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders. You will work with DevOps teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of Databricks clusters and associated infrastructure.

You will provide technical guidance and support to team members. You promote best practices in data engineering and ensure adherence to coding standards and documentation.

Among your responsibilities:

• Optimizing and fine-tuning data pipelines to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability;
• Developing and maintaining data models and schemas.
• Supporting data processing and analytics, ensuring data consistency and adherence to best practices;
• Monitoring and troubleshooting data pipeline issues, performance bottlenecks, and data quality problems;
• Implementing data governance and data lineage processes, ensuring the traceability and documentation of data movement and transformations;
• Implementing and maintaining data security and access controls within Databricks;
• Ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations and company policies.
• Evaluating and recommending tools and techniques to improve data processing efficiency and scalability.

You radiate energy, are a positive thinker and easily connect with others in informal ways.

• BSc/MSc in a relevant domain;
• At least 3 years of experience in data engineering or data operations roles;
• Expert knowledge of Databricks (including cluster management, job scheduling, and performance optimization);
• Proficient in SQL and data modelling concepts and in using data lineage tools such as Purview, Apache Atlas, or Collibra;
• You have hands-on experience with cloud environments (particularly Azure), and you are familiar with related services such as Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Azure Synapse Analytics;
• Experience with additional data technologies such as CosmosDB, Kafka, Snowflake, graph databases, or semantic web databases is a plus.
• Full working proficiency in English.

A fulltime hybrid position, working from the Amsterdam or Arnhem office a couple of days per week. The salary package includes a base salary level (all in) oriented towards 80.000 EUR; on target annual incentive is 20% - with a maximum of 40%. Furthermore you will be enjoying a comprehensive pension plan and unlimited vacation days are included into the package.

How we'll proceed. Within four working days we will let you know if you qualify for the position. We will schedule an introductory interview, either digitally or in-person. During this interview we will inform you as fully as possible about the vacancy, the company and the following steps in the procedure. After consulting with you, we will introduce you to our client and then continue to guide you through the application process. The Independent Recruiters Group has a large team of specialized recruiters. Each recruiter has a strong focus on their own area of expertise. This makes them the ideal sparring partner for both the candidate and the client.