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Lead Engineer & Data Platform

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A hands-on lead role owning the architecture and evolution of a hybrid (cloud + on-prem) enterprise data platform for an internationally leading investment management firm in Madrid. Day to day: setting technical direction and standards, driving automation/CI-CD, and mentoring, with Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Terraform and Python.

What if your next challenge meant leading the hybrid data platform of an internationally leading investment management firm, with a global presence and world-class teams?



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At Q-tech, we're hiring a Lead Engineer & Data Platform to join a data infrastructure team that provides the secure, scalable and trustworthy foundation for storing, processing and distributing critical enterprise data, across cloud and on-premises environments.


This isn't just a technical role: it's a leadership position with direct impact on architecture, engineering standards and the future of the platform.


Location: Madrid


Your day-to-day would include:



  • Owning the end-to-end architecture and evolution of the enterprise data platform across hybrid environments.
  • Setting the technical direction: roadmap, standards and reusable patterns for orchestration, scheduling and data processing.
  • Leading architectural decisions, proofs of concept and adoption plans focused on scalability, security and cost.
  • Establishing reliability, observability and operational standards (monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, SLOs).
  • Driving automation through infrastructure as code, CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Staying hands-on: design and code reviews, mentoring, and championing a culture of engineering excellence.

What we're looking for:



  • 12+ years of experience in data/platform engineering, designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
  • Production experience with Apache Airflow and Apache Kafka / event-driven architectures.
  • Proven ability to integrate batch and streaming pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka).
  • Advanced Python and SQL; Java experience for Kafka-based services/connectors is a plus.
  • Terraform, Git, CI/CD; OpenShift or Kubernetes experience is a plus.
  • Experience in regulated environments: security, data quality, access management and compliance.
  • Proven technical leadership: team direction, mentoring and communication with technical and business stakeholders. xqbhyrx
  • Fluent English, written and spoken.

If you're passionate about building robust data platforms, leading with strong technical judgment, and making an impact in a global financial environment, we'd love to talk to you.


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