Senior Data Engineer - Build a Data Platform (Hybrid)

Budget Thuis; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 73,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th month salary

Hybrid work 50/50

ClassPass credits

Pension 16%

Remote up to 1 month per year

Volunteer day

Job summary

Budget Thuis is building a data platform from scratch. As Senior Data Engineer you will help evaluate tools for the data stack, define architecture with management, and build robust data pipelines.

You will mentor a peer, implement data quality checks, and ensure reliable pipeline operations while aligning with business outcomes in the energy sector. The role is hybrid and located in Amsterdam.

Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines in a modern cloud data stack (warehouse, dbt, orchestration).
• Ability to make architecture-level calls with management
• Experience in rapidly evolving platforms or migrations
• Writing tests and embedding data quality checks in pipelines
• Track record of shipping incremental, simple solutions
• Mentoring and unblock a peer without formal management
• Curiosity about how pipelines drive real business outcomes in energy/utility sectors

Responsibilities

• Help evaluate and choose tools for the data stack and make architecture calls with your manager.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and mentor your peer day-to-day.
• Add data quality checks and dbt tests as standard practice.
• Break work into small, deployable increments and keep PRs focused.
• Monitor pipeline outputs after deployments and keep codebase clean.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud data stack

dbt or equivalent

Architecture decisions

Data quality testing

Mentoring peers

Collaboration

Energy sector domain

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Databricks

Azure Data Lake

Lineage/Quality tools

Job description

Budget Thuis is building a data platform from scratch. As Senior Data Engineer you will help evaluate tools for the data stack, define architecture with management, and build robust data pipelines.

You will mentor a peer, implement data quality checks, and ensure reliable pipeline operations while aligning with business outcomes in the energy sector. The role is hybrid and located in Amsterdam.