Senior Data Engineer – Large-Scale Pipelines & Systems

Bazaarvoice; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bazaarvoice is seeking a seasoned Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale, distributed data systems and pipelines. You will drive data infrastructure, optimize storage, ensure reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate data needs into robust solutions.

We value strong software engineering practices, technical leadership, and a passion for staying ahead of emerging data engineering trends.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years designing and building robust, scalable, distributed data systems and pipelines using open-source and public cloud tech.
• Strong experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster).
• Experience with big data storage/processing tech (DBT, Spark, SQL, Athena/Trino, Redshift, Snowflake, PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and streaming tech (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink).
• Experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform).
• Strong knowledge of software engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, Git, containers).
• Strong technical leadership, problem solving and analytical thinking.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Passion for staying up to date with emerging data engineering technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support large-scale distributed data systems.
• Develop data pipelines and optimize storage and retrieval.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of data architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and implement solutions.
• Advocate for software engineering best practices to ensure efficiency and maintainability.

Skills

Distributed data systems

Data pipeline design

Software engineering practices

Communication & collaboration

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Education

BSc in Computer Science or related

Tools

Apache Airflow

Dagster

DBT

Spark

SQL

Athena

Trino

Redshift

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kafka

Kafka Streams

Flink

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Bazaarvoice is seeking a seasoned Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale, distributed data systems and pipelines. You will drive data infrastructure, optimize storage, ensure reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate data needs into robust solutions.

We value strong software engineering practices, technical leadership, and a passion for staying ahead of emerging data engineering trends.