Senior Data Engineer
Employer · Zocks
Software developer
Database administratorSystems analystFull-timeBudapest District XI, Science Park
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help develop and enhance our data infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our product and customer base continue to grow. You'll join our Data team and work on a mix of complex engineering challenges and new initiatives.
Tasks
- Design, develop, and maintain production data pipelines, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Implement new data pipelines, integrations, and data processing capabilities to support our product.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new data lake solutions.
- Optimize data processing, storage, and orchestration to support growing data volumes and complex use cases.
- Participate in architectural discussions, evaluate technical approaches, and propose improvements to existing solutions.
- Develop and enhance automated data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
- Apply engineering best practices for data pipeline testing, observability, documentation, and reliability.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data quality issues, pipeline failures, and performance bottlenecks.
- Improve data consistency, completeness, and availability across systems.
- Take end-to-end ownership of assigned data engineering solutions, from implementation to production operation.
Requirements
- 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering or closely related software engineering disciplines, including experience working with production data systems.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience designing, developing, and maintaining reliable data pipelines.
- Solid understanding of ETL/ELT, data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and modern data architectures.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based data infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Experience working with data warehousing, data storage, and data processing technologies.
- Experience with data quality, monitoring, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Ability to independently design and implement technical solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and solve complex engineering problems.
- Experience collaborating with Data, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a proactive mindset