Lead Data Engineer: Cloud Data Platform & AI Solutions

Epex Spot; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Hybrid working setup

Annual training budget

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

EPEX SPOT is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve its cloud-native Data Platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to deliver scalable data products for analytics, operations, and AI initiatives.

You will design robust pipelines, lead architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, cost efficiency, and governance across the data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with BigQuery, Dataform, and Dataplex (catalog/lineage/quality).
• Real-time and streaming architecture, data governance and quality.
• AI-assisted engineering and Python/SQL/IaC tooling.
• Proven cloud-native data platform experience on GCP and Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Build batch and streaming processing solutions.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Coach data engineers and review designs and code.

Skills

BigQuery

Data processing

GCP

Python

CI/CD

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT/Data Eng

Tools

Dataform

Dataplex

BigQuery

Cloud Composer/Workflows

Terraform

Job description

EPEX SPOT is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve its cloud-native Data Platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to deliver scalable data products for analytics, operations, and AI initiatives.

You will design robust pipelines, lead architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, cost efficiency, and governance across the data ecosystem.