platform engineer for financial data platforms

Zurich Insurance; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working model

Option to work abroad up to 25 days a​

Home office allowance

Job summary

Zurich Insurance Group's Technology Delivery Center in Barcelona is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Databricks platform, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You will design and maintain batch and streaming ingestion pipelines, Delta Live Tables, and Delta Lake, plus Unity Catalog governance.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, Databricks Workflows, and collaborate with cloud, data engineering, architecture, and product teams to deliver a scalable

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in Data Engineering or Cloud Data Architecture.
• 3+ years owning and managing Databricks platforms in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, and Workflows.
• Proficient in PySpark, Python, and Databricks SQL for scalable pipelines.
• Solid DevOps knowledge: Git-based development, CI/CD, IaC.
• Excellent AWS experience: S3, IAM, networking, security controls.
• Experience in regulated industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Databricks platform ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Design, build, and maintain batch, streaming, API, and CDC data ingestion frameworks.
• Develop and manage Delta Live Tables pipelines with data quality and change data capture.
• Administer Delta Lake environments: performance tuning, schema evolution, VACUUM, OPTIMIZE.
• Implement Unity Catalog governance: access controls, data lineage, classification, namespaces.
• Build, deploy, and support Databricks Workflows for multi-task orchestration.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines using Git-based practices and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Collaborate with cloud and infra teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/CDK).
• Manage authentication/authorization: AWS IAM, secret management, rotation.
• Monitor platform health, costs, and performance with observability tools.

Skills

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

PySpark

Python

Databricks SQL

CI/CD

Git

AWS

Data Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Airflow

Kafka/MSK

Databricks Asset Bundles

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Grafana

Job description

Описание

Zurich Insurance Group is a global insurance company. Its Technology Delivery Center in Barcelona provides technological solutions and support to local and global business units, covering software development, data analytics, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure.

Задачи

• Own and evolve the Databricks platform supporting the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency;
• Design, build, and maintain batch, streaming, API, and CDC data ingestion frameworks across multiple source systems;
• Develop and manage Delta Live Tables pipelines with data quality controls, expectations, schema enforcement, and change data capture;
• 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 complex multi-task pipeline orchestration, dependency management, retries, and event-driven processing;
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git-based development practices and Databricks Asset Bundles 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;
• 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 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 across the data ecosystem.

Требования

• 5-8 Years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Cloud Data Architecture;
• At least 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;
• Strong AWS experience with S3, IAM, networking, security controls, and secrets management;
• Experience with large-scale data platforms in regulated industries;
• Nice to have: Financial services experience, Databricks and/or AWS certifications, Airflow, Kafka/MSK, enterprise data governance frameworks.

Условия

• Flexible working model;
• Option to work abroad for up to 25 days per year;
• Over 300 euros for home office setup and an additional monthly home office allowance;
• Internal and external training, including English, German, and Spanish classes depending on business needs;
• Ticket restaurant and health insurance with the option to exchange them for other benefits;
• Life and accident insurance;
• Collective life retirement plan;
• 2000 Referral bonus for referring talented employees;
• Special banking and insurance conditions and exclusive employee discounts;
• Functional diversity benefits;
• Stock options and mortgage benefits;
• Work location: Barcelona, Poblenou.