Databricks Platform Engineer for Global Finance Data Hub

Zurich Insurance; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible working model

Home office allowance

English, German, Spanish trainings

Health Insurance

Training & certifications

Stock options

Descripción de la vacante

Zurich Insurance Group in Barcelona seeks an( e) experienced Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Databricks-based data hub. You will design ingestion frameworks and manage Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog governance, and Delta Lake optimization.

Lead Delta Live Tables pipelines, enforce data quality, and implement security controls while collaborating with cloud, finance, and product teams to scale an enterprise data platform.

Formación

• 5-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Cloud Data Architecture.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience owning and managing Databricks platforms in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Databricks services, including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Workflows, and Asset Bundles.
• Proven experience designing and supporting batch, streaming, API, and CDC data ingestion frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency in PySpark, Python, and Databricks SQL for scalable data pipeline development.
• Solid knowledge of DevOps practices, including Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or CDK).
• Strong AWS experience covering S3, IAM, networking, security controls, and secrets management.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms in regulated industries; financial services experience is highly desirable.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve the Databricks platform that underpins the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Design, build, and maintain data ingestion frameworks supporting batch, streaming, API, and CDC data integration patterns across multiple source systems.
• Develop and manage Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines, implementing data quality controls, expectations, schema enforcement, and change data capture processes.
• Administer and optimise Delta Lake environments, including performance tuning, schema evolution, time travel, VACUUM, and OPTIMIZE operations.
• Implement and manage Unity Catalog governance practices, including access controls, data lineage, data classification, and namespace management.
• Build, deploy, and support Databricks Workflows for orchestration of complex multi-task pipelines, dependency management, retries, and event-driven processing.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git-based development practices and Databricks Asset Bundles to promote code across development, testing, and production environments.
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using AWS CloudFormation or CDK.
• Manage authentication and authorisation mechanisms, including AWS IAM roles, instance profiles, service principals, secret management, and credential rotation processes.
• Monitor platform health, performance, operational metrics, and costs using Databricks system tables, CloudWatch, Grafana, and related observability tools.
• Define and enforce cluster policies, compute strategies, and DBU governance controls to optimise platform utilisation and expenditure.
• Ensure platform security through the implementation of PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, row-level security, and column-level security controls.
• Partner with data engineering, finance, architecture, and product teams to deliver a robust and scalable enterprise data platform.
• Drive platform best practices, technical standards, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across the data ecosystem.

Conocimientos

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

PySpark

Python

CI/CD

Git

AWS

CloudFormation

CDK

Security controls

Data ingestion

Airflow

Kafka

Herramientas

Databricks

Git

CloudFormation

CDK

Airflow

Kafka

Descripción del empleo

Zurich Insurance Group in Barcelona seeks an( e) experienced Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Databricks-based data hub. You will design ingestion frameworks and manage Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog governance, and Delta Lake optimization.

Lead Delta Live Tables pipelines, enforce data quality, and implement security controls while collaborating with cloud, finance, and product teams to scale an enterprise data platform.