Remote Big Data Engineer — Spark, Scala & SQL

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Málaga; Remote; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Professional growth opportunities

Multicultural and international team

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Lunch and transport cards

Online language classes

Smart Office Pack

Job summary

Talan Spain is looking for a Big Data Developer to join an Agile team and drive design, development and evolution of data lake solutions for Market Risk use cases.

You will work with Spark, Scala and SQL to build large-scale data pipelines, ingest, transform and publish data, and collaborate across squads and production support teams.

The role emphasizes robust, scalable, and production-ready solutions, with opportunities for professional growth and remote work across multiple countries.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in Big Data, Data Lakes or cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Scala and SQL for large-scale data processing.
• Good understanding of Data Lake architecture, data quality controls, data lineage and production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and functional stakeholders.
• English: C1 level or equivalent professional fluency.
• Spanish is considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain data lake pipelines using Apache Spark, Scala and SQL.
• Build and maintain scalable data processing solutions for large volumes of data.
• Orchestrate batch workflows and dependencies using Control-M and Airflow.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, validation and publication processes for Market Risk use cases.
• Analyse and optimise the performance, reliability and scalability of Spark-based workloads.
• Analyse technical and functional requirements, identify gaps and propose effective solutions.
• Contribute to delivery planning and collaborate with different teams to ensure successful implementation.
• Support production incidents, perform root-cause analysis and contribute to continuous improvement of operational processes.
• Work closely with Agile squads, functional teams and production support teams to deliver high-quality solutions and business value.
• Follow software engineering and data development best practices to ensure robust, maintainable and production-ready solutions.

Skills

Apache Spark

Scala

SQL

Data Lake architecture

Data quality controls

Data lineage

English proficiency (C1)

Teamwork

Problem solving

Tools

Control-M

Airflow

Databricks

Azure

AWS

YARN

GitHub

Jenkins

SonarQube

ServiceNow

Job description

Talan Spain is looking for a Big Data Developer to join an Agile team and drive design, development and evolution of data lake solutions for Market Risk use cases.

You will work with Spark, Scala and SQL to build large-scale data pipelines, ingest, transform and publish data, and collaborate across squads and production support teams.

The role emphasizes robust, scalable, and production-ready solutions, with opportunities for professional growth and remote work across multiple countries.