Data Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines for Analytics

Approach People Recruitment; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Approach People Recruitment is seeking a Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines that feed analytics and ML initiatives. You will work with Spark, Hadoop, and Databricks to ensure scalable, reliable data flows.

Responsibilities include building data lakes and warehouses, collaborating with data scientists, and upholding GDPR and data governance standards across the data estate.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• 4+ years in data engineering.
• Fluency in Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Manage big data platforms (Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).
• Build and maintain data lakes and warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts to provide clean, structured data.
• Ensure GDPR compliance and data governance best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Data governance

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

GCP Dataflow

Snowflake

Job description

Approach People Recruitment is seeking a Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines that feed analytics and ML initiatives. You will work with Spark, Hadoop, and Databricks to ensure scalable, reliable data flows.

Responsibilities include building data lakes and warehouses, collaborating with data scientists, and upholding GDPR and data governance standards across the data estate.