Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & AI (Flexible)

Sita - Société Internationale De Télécommunications; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Week: Work from home up to 2 days

Flex Day

Flex-Location: up to 30 days remote

Employee Wellbeing program

Champion Health platform

Professional Development opportunities

Competitive benefits

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

SITA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Central Data Platform Team in Madrid. You will design, develop, and maintain reference data patterns and pipelines to enable scalable analytics across airports, airlines, and ground handlers.

You’ll work with Databricks, AzureML, and modern tools to power AI/ML use cases and data governance. You will collaborate with data architects, scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions, ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of technical experience with Big Data systems.
• Familiarity with Databricks, Spark and event streaming (Azure Event Hub, Kafka).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with clean coding and OOP practices.
• Cloud deployment experience (Azure preferred).
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to enable and advise teams without taking ownership of their delivery.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Flexibility and adaptability in dynamic environments.
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn new tools and improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable cloud-based data architectures with a focus on performance, cost-efficiency, and security.
• Develop reference ingestion patterns and templates for data from enterprise systems, APIs, and external datasets.
• Develop and maintain pipelines and provide guidance on ETL/ELT best practices for portfolio teams.
• Apply data governance, cataloguing, and quality monitoring to ensure trustworthy data.
• Collaborate with data architects, scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Apply modern technologies (Databricks, AzureML, LLMs) to enable analytics and AI/ML use cases.

Skills

Big Data

SQL

Python

Azure

Databricks

Spark

Data governance

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Databricks

AzureML

Power BI

Tableau

Kafka

Azure Event Hub

Job description

SITA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Central Data Platform Team in Madrid. You will design, develop, and maintain reference data patterns and pipelines to enable scalable analytics across airports, airlines, and ground handlers.

You’ll work with Databricks, AzureML, and modern tools to power AI/ML use cases and data governance. You will collaborate with data architects, scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions, ensuring security and