Senior Data Platform Engineer - Scale Architecture Leader

Sprint and Partners; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work week

Stock options

Job summary

Sprint and Partners is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to shape a massive, globally active data platform. You will influence data processing, storage, governance, and consumption across engineering teams, balancing platform scalability with developer experience.

You’ll combine deep technical expertise with leadership to define roadmaps, guide architecture, and mentor engineers while advancing platform reliability and performance on a hybrid, relocation-friendly setup.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and distributed systems experience.
• Proven ability to lead engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Experience shaping platform roadmaps and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap for data platform capabilities.
• Lead architecture across compute, storage, metadata, and streaming systems.
• Build internal platforms and tooling to boost developer productivity at scale.
• Drive reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership

Architecture

Tools

Kafka

Hadoop

Kubernetes

Spark

Trino

OLAP

Job description

Sprint and Partners is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to shape a massive, globally active data platform. You will influence data processing, storage, governance, and consumption across engineering teams, balancing platform scalability with developer experience.

You’ll combine deep technical expertise with leadership to define roadmaps, guide architecture, and mentor engineers while advancing platform reliability and performance on a hybrid, relocation-friendly setup.