Lead Data Engineer – Digital Telemetry & Behavioral Insights

CarTrawler group; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CarTrawler is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own digital and behavioural telemetry. You will shape unified data models, integrate web telemetry and RUM, and drive governance, quality and downstream data products across domains.

Across product and engineering teams, you’ll define event contracts, schemas and metadata, enabling reliable analytics and journey insights while ensuring privacy and lifecycle controls are in place.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years' experience in data engineering or related role with senior ownership.
• Hands-on experience engineering digital behavioural or telemetry data in production.
• Advanced SQL and Python, with cloud data platforms experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt and AWS in modern data stacks.
• Knowledge of event taxonomies, schemas, data contracts and telemetry.
• Strong communication with analysts, product teams and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Shapes unified behavioural data models connecting actions, journeys and telemetry.
• Define tagging, event contracts and versioning with reusable taxonomies.
• Engineer data products measuring conversion, funnels and KPIs.
• Turn business needs into reusable, governed data structures for downstream use.
• Ensure observability by linking telemetry with RUM and operational metrics.
• Promote data quality, privacy, lifecycle controls and documentation.
• Enable analysts and product teams with telemetry governance and roadmaps.

Skills

Data engineering

Digital analytics engineering

Product telemetry

SQL

Python

Cloud data platforms

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Event telemetry

Tools

Snowplow

Adobe Experience Platform

Google Analytics

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

Job description

CarTrawler is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own digital and behavioural telemetry. You will shape unified data models, integrate web telemetry and RUM, and drive governance, quality and downstream data products across domains.

Across product and engineering teams, you’ll define event contracts, schemas and metadata, enabling reliable analytics and journey insights while ensuring privacy and lifecycle controls are in place.