Amsterdam
4 days ago
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Senior Data Engineer

Budget Thuis

Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer needed to help build a new data platform from scratch for Budget Thuis, a Dutch energy supplier. Requires 10 years of experience with cloud data warehouses, dbt, and orchestration tools like Airflow or Dagster, plus architecture-level decision-making and mentoring skills.

HybridFull-timeSeniorCloud Data WarehouseDbt

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Hybrid working (50/50); 1 month per year fully remote

Experience Required

10 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)
Cloud Data WarehousedbtApache AirflowDagsterData PipelinesData Quality ChecksSchema ValidationELTOrchestrationArchitecture DesignTestingMentoringCollaborationIncremental DeliveryRoot Cause Analysis
Soft Skills
CollaborationMentoringCommunicationCuriosityProblem SolvingConstructive FeedbackPrioritization

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)
Azure Data LakeDatabricksAzure Event HubsData GovernanceLineageCatalogingQuality MonitoringDomain Knowledge in UtilitiesDomain Knowledge in EnergyDomain Knowledge in TelcoBI Team CollaborationSmall Team Experience

Key Responsibilities

  • Help evaluate and choose the tools for our data stack: data warehouse, ELT, and orchestration — and make architecture-level calls together with your manager, not just implement someone else's design.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines, and mentor and unblock your peer day-to-day, without formal management responsibility.
  • Add data quality checks to every pipeline change: null checks, row counts, schema validation, and dbt tests (or equivalent) as standard practice, not an extra step.
  • Break your work into small, deployable increments and keep pull requests focused.
  • Monitor pipeline outputs after every deployment and keep the codebase easy to work with.
  • Respond quickly to pipeline failures, investigate the root cause, and escalate when an issue is bigger than the two of you.
  • Review pull requests with constructive feedback, pair with your peer on complex or unfamiliar work, and help set the technical bar the team grows on.
  • Communicate early when changes affect downstream consumers such as BI, ML, or customers, and prioritize based on customer impact.
  • Share what you've learned from past platform builds — including what you'd do differently — and help translate that into how this team works.
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