Senior Data Engineer

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

Are you a true specialist at creating data ingestion pipelines and ETL processes? How would you like to join the most exciting scalable start-up in history to accelerate the transition to fossil free transportation? Build, design, develop, and maintain the entire data infrastructure from scratch while you utilize your expertise in Python software development! Join this organization at the unique starting phase with a real purpose, high aspirations and strong team spirit!

Do you want to make a change into the fastest changing industry and have impact on climate change? Build your legacy into the most revolutionary fossil free transition in history!

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain the data infrastructure to support all data-driven initiatives. You will utilise your expertise in Python software development to design and implement efficient data ingestion pipelines to ensure the smooth and reliable extracting, transformation and loading of data from various sources. Among your repsonsibilities:

• Design, implement and manage data ingestion tools and processes:
• Select and configure the most suitable tools;
• Ensure seamless integration with existing systems and optimize data ingestion processes;
• Work with streaming platforms:
• Handle real-time data streams efficiently;
• Establish data lake infrastructure;
• Create a robust and scalable data lake infrastructure by applying your expertise in parquet and delta lake formats;
• Implement best practices for data organization, storage, and retrieval.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute to projects involving spatial analysis, visualization, and mapping (handle geospatial data).

You will get to leverage your knowledge to enhance data organization, discoverability, and interoperability within our systems (explore semantic web databases).

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

• BSc/MSc in a relevant domain;
• At least 5 years of experience as a Python developer, with a strong focus on data engineering;
• Relevant experience (at least 2 years) with commercial data ingestion (e.g., Data Factory, Fivetran, Trifacta), including ETL processes and data pipeline development;
• Experience with Kafka or Azure EventsHub; knowledge of parquet and delta lake formats or experience setting up data lakes from scratch;
• Experience with Databricks; Puurview, Atlan, or Apache Atlas; geospatial data; semantic web databases is a big 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.