Senior Lead Data Engineer — Enterprise Data Platform

Source Group International; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Source Group International is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive enterprise data products and architecture. Hybrid, permanent role with ownership of data pipelines, semantic layers, and governance across multiple business domains.

The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in cloud data platforms, Databricks, PySpark, and data quality frameworks, delivering scalable analytics foundations for reporting and AI use cases.

Qualifications

• 12+ years' experience delivering enterprise data and analytics solutions.
• Proven track record owning end-to-end data architecture and complex technical initiatives.
• Experience designing and delivering production-grade data platforms and shared data products.
• Strong background translating complex business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, best practices, and architectural governance.
• Ability to work across multiple business domains and stakeholder groups.
• Strong ownership mindset with experience leading technical design through to production delivery.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise data products end-to-end.
• Design scalable data pipelines, models, and transformation frameworks.
• Build and evolve semantic layers supporting reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Define and implement data governance, security, lineage, and ownership standards.
• Establish engineering standards for quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Drive platform observability, CI/CD, and data quality best practices.
• Model complex business domains and create reusable data assets.
• Own technical delivery from design through deployment and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data architecture

Data pipelines

Data governance

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Data modelling

CI/CD

Observability

Data quality

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

dbt

PySpark

Unity Catalog

DataHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Source Group International is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive enterprise data products and architecture. Hybrid, permanent role with ownership of data pipelines, semantic layers, and governance across multiple business domains.

The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in cloud data platforms, Databricks, PySpark, and data quality frameworks, delivering scalable analytics foundations for reporting and AI use cases.