Senior Data Engineer GCP BigQuery DBT
Summary
Hands-on senior data engineer role in Kraków at a global fintech/CFD trading company: design, build and operate batch and real-time data pipelines on GCP using BigQuery, Kafka, Airflow and DBT as part of a Medallion architecture move, own data quality, observability and integrations, and support AI/data science initiatives. Office-based with 2 days a week work from home.
Senior Data Engineer (GCP BigQuery DBT) Krakow to 27,000 PLN p/month
Are you a Senior Data Engineer with GCP experience?
You could be progressing your career in a senior, hands-on Data Engineer role at a global FinTech / CFD trading company that has been consistently voted as a top employer.
As a Senior Data Engineer you'll design, build and operate the data pipelines and platform capabilities powering analytics, compliance and AI. Working within a squad led by the Data Engineering Team Lead, you'll play a key role in the GCP consolidation programme, solving complex ingestion, transformation and reliability challenges while helping raise engineering standards across the team.
You'll build robust batch and real-time pipelines on GCP, working with Kafka, BigQuery and Airflow as part of the move towards a Medallion architecture. You'll take ownership of data quality within your area, implementing data contracts, quality checks and observability to ensure pipeline health, reliability and SLAs.
You'll also develop and maintain in-house connectors and third party integrations, ensuring the ingestion estate is resilient, well monitored and maintainable. Alongside hands-on development, you'll contribute to engineering best practice through code reviews, DBT modelling, CI/CD and effective change control for shared datasets.
You'll also help support Data Science and AI initiatives, developing feature engineering and model data pipelines and helping establish AI-ready data through strong lineage, reproducibility and freshness.
Location / WFH:
You’ll join colleagues in the Krakow offices that offer a wide range of facilities and all the latest kit, with flexibility to work from home twice a week.
About you:
- You have strong, hands-on experience building and operating production grade data pipelines on GCP includingBigQuery, with strong SQL and Python skills
- You have experience with Apache Kafka or equivalent streaming / pub/sub technologies, including designing event driven ingestion patterns and troubleshooting real time data flows under operational conditions
- You're familiar with modern transformation tooling, particularlyDBT and have an appreciation of Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture patterns and how they support self-service analytics
- You're comfortable working in a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of data governance requirements (lineage, access control, audit trails) and the discipline tooperatewithin change control processes
- You have fluent English language skills
What's in it for you:
- Salary to 27,000 PLN p/month
- Private medical care for you and your family
- Life Assurance
- 25 days holiday (+ additional day for your birthday)
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women's, Black, Parents and Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events and projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
- Summer and Christmas parties as well as other social events