Expert Data Engineer (Łódź, PL, 90-118)

GFT Technologies SE; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 194,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work locations

Comprehensive benefits package

Online training & certifications

Work From Anywhere up to 140 days/year

Social events

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE in Poland is seeking an Expert Data Engineer to design and build modern data platforms across cloud and on‑premise environments. You will collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to create scalable data solutions and support data‑driven decisions within agile teams.

The role requires 7+ years of experience, strong SQL and Python, data modelling expertise, and hands‑on work with GCP tools like BigQuery. Hybrid work across Lodz or other polish offices offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of commercial data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency.
• Experience with data modelling.
• Understanding of data warehousing, data lakes and lakehouse architectures.
• Hands-on experience with GCP data tools and BigQuery.
• Experience with DBT, Airflow and Trino.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and deploy cloud and on-premise data models and transformations.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Onboard new data sources and build data ingestion frameworks.
• Design, build, test and deploy cloud data warehouses and data products.
• Optimize data views and schemas for reporting and visualization.
• Review, interpret and implement business and technical requirements.
• Collaborate on backlog refinement, user stories and epics in Jira.
• Ensure data platform performance, scalability and reliability.

Skills

7+ years data engineering

SQL

Python

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Data lakes

Lakehouse architectures

CI/CD

Data pipelines

GCP

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Trino

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Trino

BigQuery

GCP

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Qlik

Apache Superset

Job description

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 17400 - 26700 PLN gross

What will you do?

As an Expert Data Engineer, you will help design and build modern data platforms and products across cloud and on-premise environments. You will work closely with business and technical stakeholders to create scalable data solutions, optimize data processing pipelines, and support data-driven decision making within agile delivery teams.

Your tasks

• Design, build, test and deploy cloud and on-premise data models and transformations
• Develop and maintain ETL and ELT pipelines
• Onboard new data sources and build data ingestion frameworks
• Design, build, test and deploy cloud data warehouses and data products
• Optimize data views and schemas for reporting and visualization use cases
• Review, interpret and implement business and technical requirements
• Collaborate on backlog refinement, user stories and epics in Jira
• Ensure data platform performance, scalability and reliability

Your skills

• 7+ years of commercial experience as a Data Engineer
• Strong SQL, Python
• Experience with data modelling
• Understanding of data warehousing, data lakes and data lakehouse architectures
• Hands-on experience with GCP data engineering tools
• Very good knowledge of BigQuery
• Experience with DBT, Airflow and Trino
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and practices
• Experience designing and building scalable data pipelines

Nice to have

• Experience with Spark/PySpark
• Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Qlik or Apache Superset
• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience with Databricks

We offer

• Hybrid work in one of our locations: Lodz, Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw (2 office days per week)
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• Online training and certifications
• Access to e-learning platform
• Work From Anywhere (up to 140 days/year abroad)
• Social events