Data Platform Lead — AWS & Snowflake, FinOps Ready

Creditstar Group; Finland; Hybrid; EUR 67,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of data platform

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development

International team

Team events

Job summary

Creditstar Group is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the data platform supporting analytics, reporting, and data science across Europe. You will lead platform design, governance, and scalable engineering practices to empower BI, Analytics, and Data Science teams.

You will collaborate with DevOps and data stakeholders, driving reliability, cost efficiency, and secure data access while shaping standards and best practices for a growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience running and improving a cloud data platform on AWS and Snowflake.
• Solid grasp of cloud infrastructure, security, and cost management.
• Experience with data governance, access control, and PII management.
• Experience in regulated settings such as finance, banking, or AML/KYC.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Creditstar's data platform on AWS and Snowflake.
• Strengthen platform performance, security, secrets management, and observability.
• Lead cost efficiency and FinOps practices within the data team.
• Advance data governance, data ownership, access controls, and GDPR alignment.
• Define and uphold engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, and reviews.
• Own the integration layer connecting internal and third-party data sources.
• Lead incident responses and durable fixes for the data platform.
• Collaborate with DevOps on infrastructure requirements and solutions.
• Support BI Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists with a governed self-serve platform.

Skills

AWS

Snowflake

Data governance

ETL/ELT pipelines

Airflow

DBT

Spark

Docker

Security & IAM

FinOps

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Airflow

DBT

Kafka

Spark

Docker

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Creditstar Group is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the data platform supporting analytics, reporting, and data science across Europe. You will lead platform design, governance, and scalable engineering practices to empower BI, Analytics, and Data Science teams.

You will collaborate with DevOps and data stakeholders, driving reliability, cost efficiency, and secure data access while shaping standards and best practices for a growing fintech environment.