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Principal Data Engineer

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Summary

Principal Data Engineer designing and delivering cloud-based data platforms and architectures on GCP, Databricks, and/or Snowflake. Day to day involves shaping data strategy with stakeholders, building data processing frameworks with SQL/Python/Spark, and driving data quality, metadata, and governance standards.

Join a team focused on designing and delivering modern data platforms and architectures that support advanced analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making. You will work closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define data strategies, shape architectural solutions, and ensure high standards of data quality, scalability, and performance across cloud-based environments.

  • Design and optimize data platform architecture
  • Design and implement data processing frameworks, templates, and solutions
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams
  • Review, refine, and translate business requirements into architectural decisions
  • Drive data quality, metadata management, and governance best practices
  • Support the adoption of modern cloud-based data engineering solutions
  • At least 8 years of commercial experience as a Data Engineer, Lead Data Engineer, or Data Architect
  • Strong expertise in SQL
  • Strong expertise in Python
  • Strong expertise in Spark or PySpark
  • Experience in data architecture, data quality, metadata management, analytics, and reporting
  • Strong experience with cloud data engineering tools within GCP
  • Experience designing data architectures on Databricks and/or Snowflake platforms
  • Experience with modern data engineering toolsets

Nice to have

  • Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Qlik, or Apache Superset
  • Experience in consulting environments
  • Experience in Data Science

We offer

  • Hybrid work in one of our locations: Lodz, Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw (2 office days per week)
  • Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
  • Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
  • Online training and certifications
  • Access to e-learning platform
  • Work From Anywhere (up to 140 days/year abroad)

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