Senior Data Engineer

GRESB; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Company pension plan

Free public transport

Office lunch provided

Job summary

GRESB is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale the data foundation supporting sustainability benchmarks and related products. You will work with the data and product teams to run the annual benchmark and build new data foundations for next steps.

You will own pipelines, data models, data quality, and documentation, ensuring trustworthy data and efficient access for reporting and analytics across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and running data pipelines in production.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with ability to interrogate data and extract insights.
• Experience operating systems in cloud environments with IaC, containers and CD.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines and services supporting evolving standards.
• Shape data models, schemas and serving layers for analytics and reporting.
• Own data quality and reliability with validation, tests and monitoring.
• Make data discoverable and documented with lineage and pipeline logic.
• Guide architecture choices and raise engineering standards through design and reviews.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data analysis

Cloud environments

Tools

Pandas

Polars

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

S3/Athena

Job description

About the role

GRESB is an industry-led organisation on a mission to provide the financial industry with standardised, validated sustainability data on real assets. Investors and managers rely on that data to allocate capital, and we are investing in how we deliver it so it is easier to access, trust, and act on, in both human and automated workflows.

In practice that means building a governed, scalable data model that can support our assessments as they grow and evolve, and making our data easier to work with for the teams and systems that use it.

This only works ifthe data underneath is trustworthy and well defined, for the people using it and for the systems and AI reading it. We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build that foundation.

What you will do

You would join our data team, working closely with the Product team. The work is split between keeping the annual benchmark running and building the data foundations for what comes next, so you would touch both legacy and greenfield.

• Build and maintain the data pipelines and services that support our yearly evolving standards and methodology, and re-architect or retire those that no longer keep up.
• Shape the data models and schemas beneath our products, and the serving layers that expose them to reporting and analytics.
• Own data quality and reliability through validation, automated testing and production monitoring, to ensure issues are caught as early as possible, never first by the people consuming the data.
• Make our data discoverable and documented, including definitions, lineage and pipeline logic, so the teams and systems that consume it can self-serve.
• Guide architecture decisions in the areas you own: frame the options and the trade-offs, and bring them to a decision the team commits to. Help raise engineering standards through design and code review.

Our stack: Python (pandas, polars and fastapi), Parquet on S3 with Athena, Postgres, kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions. Around it sit a Rails portal, Java application services, and LLM validation on Bedrock.

What we are looking for

• A track record of building and running data pipelines and services in production, seeing them through end-to-end, and iterating on your approach as lessons emerge.
• Strong Python and SQL, with enough data analysis skill to interrogate a dataset and answer a question with it.
• Hands-on experience running systems in a cloud environment: infrastructure as code, containers, and continuous deployment.
• A solid grounding in data modelling and warehouse design.
• The ability to take an ambiguous problem from diagnosis through to something shipped.
• Comfort with context-heavy work. Our standards and methodology are intricate, and doing this job well means carrying a lot of domain detail.
• A habit of turning agentic tools into workflows the rest of the team adopts, with the judgement to catch what they get wrong.

And in how you work:

• You solve it at the system level. You can tell a recurring bug apart from the design that keeps producing it, and you bring the design forward with the impact and a proposal.
• You lift the people around you. You mentor others through complex work, review carefully, and turn what you learn into patterns the team keeps using. You expect the same scrutiny of your own work.

Experience insustainability, real estate, or financial services is a plus.

What we offer

• Impact you can point at. Sustainability is what GRESB exists for, and the data you build is what investors use to judge the buildings and infrastructure they own.
• Projects that shape where sustainability data goes next, the room to own them and to change how we work, and a yearly hackathon where you build your own idea.
• AI tooling provided company-wide, with the expectation that you use it. Agentic tooling is how this team works rather than a pilot someone is running on the side.
• An open, international culture and team that enjoys each other's company, with regular socials and activities.
• A competitive salary that matches your skills and experience + holiday allowance paid monthly
• Annual leave of 25 days + 2 volunteering days off per year
• Company pension plan
• Free public transport to and from the Amsterdam office
• Free and healthy daily catered office lunch
• A generous annual professional development + one-time home office budget

ABOUT GRESB

GRESB is a mission-driven organisation and strategic partner for sustainable and high-performing investments across real assets and climate-critical industries. We help investment professionals mitigate risk and build portfolios that are resilient, efficient, and financially attractive for long-term success.

Our Vision:An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world.

Our Mission:To provide financial markets with actionable sustainability insights, data, and benchmarks. More than 150 global institutional and financial investors with USD 53 trillion in assets under management rely on GRESB to help guide their investment decisions, mitigating risk, improving portfolio quality, and driving long-term financial success.

The GRESB team is an energetic group of more than 100 individuals from diverse backgrounds with experience spanning sustainability, data science, software development, real estate, infrastructure, and the capital markets. Most of us work out of our head office in Amsterdam or one of our satellite offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, Singapore, or Sydney. We are passionate about tackling the sustainability challenge by providing the insights that will power the markets of the future and enable investors to allocate the world's capital in a more responsible way.

GRESB is a portfolio company of BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic's climate investing platform.

GRESB is an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace, one at which all workers - regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, identity, education, or disability - feel valued and respected. We are committed to a non-discriminatory approach to hiring and provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all of our teams and programs.