Senior Data Engineer, Payments Lakehouse & Governance

EPI Company; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-first culture

Work from another EU country up to 3–6

€5,000 training budget per year

Résumé du poste

European Payments Initiative (EPI) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines for payments and settlements. You will ingest data from operations and third-party sources into our lakehouse, design reliable batch and near-real-time processing, and collaborate with analytics, fraud, finance and product teams.

In a regulated environment, you’ll implement data contracts, governance and privacy-by-design principles, and build reusable tooling, templates and CI/CD patterns to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related role with strong SQL and Python for production pipelines.
• Production experience with Databricks or equivalent lakehouse platform including governance, scheduling, and Delta Lake design; dbt modelling, testing and DAG management.
• Hands-on orchestration, CI/CD and deployment automation; designing data contracts, schema validation, freshness SLAs and ownership boundaries.
• Strong data governance and privacy-by-design knowledge, ideally in fintech/payments/regulated sectors; experience in monitoring, data quality and incident response.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business requirements into dependable, reusable data products and governed metrics.
• Fluent English (CEFR C1/C2) and capable of asynchronous communication in a distributed European team.

Responsabilités

• Design, build and maintain reliable batch and near-real-time data pipelines for payments, settlement, consumer and other data domains.
• Ingest and model data from operational systems, event stores and third-party sources into the lakehouse.
• Define and enforce data contracts covering schemas, ownership, quality expectations, freshness SLAs and breaking-change procedures.
• Implement orchestration, scheduling, retries, monitoring, alerting, reconciliation and incident response for production-grade pipelines.
• Apply governance and privacy-by-design principles, including GDPR/PSD2/DORA compliance and data access controls.
• Build reusable tooling, templates, CI/CD workflows and secure deployment patterns for data products.
• Optimise storage, compute, query performance and materialisation strategies; contribute to cloud cost governance.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, backend, fraud, finance and platform teams; document key decisions.

Connaissances

SQL

Python

Databricks

Orchestration

CI/CD

Data governance

Privacy by design

English communication

Formation

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE/IS

Outils

dbt

Terraform

AWS

Kafka

S3

GitHub Actions

Description du poste

European Payments Initiative (EPI) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines for payments and settlements. You will ingest data from operations and third-party sources into our lakehouse, design reliable batch and near-real-time processing, and collaborate with analytics, fraud, finance and product teams.

In a regulated environment, you’ll implement data contracts, governance and privacy-by-design principles, and build reusable tooling, templates and CI/CD patterns to