Senior Data Engineer

Budget ThuisAmsterdamHybridFull-time4 days ago

Senior Data Engineer needed at Budget Thuis to help build a new data platform from scratch, including evaluating tools for the data stack, building pipelines, and mentoring a peer. Requires 10 years of hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses, dbt, and orchestration tools like Airflow or Dagster, plus architecture-level decision-making and data quality practices.

What you'll do

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.

What you need

Must-have

Cloud data warehousedbtApache AirflowDagsterData pipelinesData quality checksSchema validationNull checks

Nice-to-have

Azure Data LakeDatabricksAzure Event HubsData governance toolsLineageCatalogingQuality monitoringUtilities domain knowledge

Soft skills

MentoringCollaborationCommunicationCuriosityConstructive feedbackPrioritizationRoot cause analysisEscalationKnowledge sharing

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