Senior Data & AI Architect — Cloud, MLOps & GenAI

EPAM Systems Inc; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. in the Netherlands seeks a Lead Data & AI Engineer to design and deliver advanced data solutions on cloud platforms, with hands-on data engineering and AI integration to scale pipelines, ensure data quality and enable ML features for analytics and intelligent applications.

You will lead data architectures, orchestrate ETL/ELT workflows, collaborate with data scientists, apply GenAI-driven methods, and maintain security, observability and cost efficiency across enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering with architecture and leadership
• Strong SQL tuning for large-scale data
• Python proficiency for data workflows
• Experience with Spark/PySpark for distributed processing
• Hands-on Databricks and Delta Lake
• Orchestration of pipelines with Azure Data Factory
• Familiarity with Gen AI in data engineering
• CI/CD for data/ML pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• English at B2 level or higher
• Nice-to-have: Prompt Engineering & RAG workflows
• Knowledge of data mesh or lakehouse concepts
• dbt and related developer tooling

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust data architectures using cloud-native technologies
• Build large-scale ETL/ELT workflows to process heterogeneous datasets
• Create data models optimized for AI/ML pipelines and analytics
• Develop streaming and batch pipelines leveraging Databricks and Azure Data Factory
• Operationalize ML solutions with feature stores and model registries
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and monitor AI models in production
• Incorporate GenAI-assisted development into data workflows for efficiency
• Ensure data governance, lineage, cataloging and quality across platforms
• Optimize platform performance, compute costs, and observability
• Mentor engineering teams in advanced data and AI engineering

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

SQL optimization

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Gen AI

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Factory

dbt

MKDocs

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. in the Netherlands seeks a Lead Data & AI Engineer to design and deliver advanced data solutions on cloud platforms, with hands-on data engineering and AI integration to scale pipelines, ensure data quality and enable ML features for analytics and intelligent applications.

You will lead data architectures, orchestrate ETL/ELT workflows, collaborate with data scientists, apply GenAI-driven methods, and maintain security, observability and cost efficiency across enterprise