Senior Data Engineer: Databricks & Spark, Dublin (Hybrid)

eir business talent; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

eir business talent is seeking a Data Engineer for a Dublin-based, hybrid role on a 12+ month contract. You will join a strategic team delivering data-intensive analytics products, leveraging Databricks, Spark, and Python to process data at scale.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong skills in Databricks/Spark/PySpark, and the ability to guide design decisions across cross-functional teams. Eligibility to work in Ireland is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high performance software.
• Experience with Python, Databricks, Spark, or PySpark for data pipelines and analytics.
• Ability to lead team level design discussions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and guide implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize data-intensive applications and analytics capabilities using Databricks, Spark, and related technologies to process and deliver data at scale.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers through technical guidance, pairing, code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture by modeling ownership, clear communication, continuous learning, pragmatic decision making, and high standards for software quality.
• Improve engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, secure coding practices, observability, performance tuning, CI/CD practices, and production readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, service, API, data, and cloud layers, driving root cause analysis and implementing durable solutions that improve platform reliability and supportability.

Skills

Data pipelines

Databricks/Spark/PySpark

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related

Job description

eir business talent is seeking a Data Engineer for a Dublin-based, hybrid role on a 12+ month contract. You will join a strategic team delivering data-intensive analytics products, leveraging Databricks, Spark, and Python to process data at scale.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong skills in Databricks/Spark/PySpark, and the ability to guide design decisions across cross-functional teams. Eligibility to work in Ireland is required.