Senior Data Platform Engineer: Databricks & Spark Lead

easyJet Airline Company PLC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading European airline seeks a Senior Platform Data Engineer to provide technical leadership in a transformative data environment. The role involves developing scalable data pipelines and collaborating with data scientists. Ideal candidates will have strong technical abilities in data engineering tools and enjoy a hands-on approach to innovative technologies. This position offers a hybrid working policy, allowing flexibility in location.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Inclusive workplace with adjustments

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and building data solutions on a cloud-based, big data distributed system.
• Hands-on software development experience with Python and modern software development practices.
• Experience in testing automation of data transformation pipelines.
• Comfortable writing efficient SQL and debugging.
• Hands-on IaC development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust, scalable data pipelines.
• Work with data scientists to deploy machine learning models.
• Coach and mentor the team to improve development standards.
• Build a documentation library and data catalogue.
• Oversight of project deliverables and code quality.

Skills

Technical Ability

Clear communication

Complex problem-solving ability

Passionate about data

Self-directed and independent

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL Server

Scala

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Apache Spark

Kafka

dbt

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

A leading European airline seeks a Senior Platform Data Engineer to provide technical leadership in a transformative data environment. The role involves developing scalable data pipelines and collaborating with data scientists. Ideal candidates will have strong technical abilities in data engineering tools and enjoy a hands-on approach to innovative technologies. This position offers a hybrid working policy, allowing flexibility in location.