Senior Data Engineer (remote EU only) — Azure Databricks + dbt
Summary
Remote (EU residents only) senior data engineer building batch and API data pipelines on Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake) with dbt, for a long-term project with a Danish pharmaceutical/biotech client. Focus on data quality, schema enforcement, monitoring/alerting, governance, and CI/CD/MLOps.
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a long-term project with a Danish client in the pharmaceutical/biotech domain.
Location: Remote, but EU residency is mandatory (we cannot consider candidates outside the European Union).
What you'll do:
- Implement batch and API-based data ingestion.
- Apply schema enforcement and handle schema drift; run data quality checks at ingestion.
- Work hands-on with dbt for pipeline observability and data governance.
- Monitor job failures, data freshness, and pipeline health against SLA targets.
- Set up alerts, logging, and retry strategies for production pipelines.
- Work within a controlled Dev/Test/Prod environment: access control, audit trails, pipeline documentation, traceability to requirements.
- Contribute to CI/CD and MLOps/AI pipelines on Databricks.
Must-haves:
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks: Spark, Delta Lake.
- Schema enforcement and schema-drift handling.
- Data quality checks at ingestion.
- Batch and API-based data ingestion.
- Strong hands-on experience with dbt.
- Monitoring job failures, data freshness, and pipeline health.
- Alerts, logging, and retry strategies.
- Access control models, audit trails, lineage, traceability.
- Data contracts, pipeline documentation, controlled environments (Dev/Test/Prod).
- EU residency.
Nice-to-have:
- CI/CD & DevOps for Data (Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines for data workflows).
- AI/MLOps — MLOps/AI pipelines on Databricks.
- Exposure to regulatory domains (GxP, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance).
- Dimensional modeling: star schema, OBT, curated marts.
- Tabular Editor, Power BI.
- Pharma/biotech industry experience.
This is a senior, independent role: the ideal candidate is comfortable taking ownership with minimal oversight and has a flexible, self-driven mindset.
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