Senior/Lead Data Engineer (Databricks)

N-iX; Kraków; Ibrido; PLN 350.000 - 550.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible working format

Competitive salary

Personalized career growth

Education reimbursement

Corporate events

Other location-specific benefits

Descrizione del lavoro

N-iX is seeking a senior data platform engineer in Kraków to shape the technical direction of a data platform, design reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation that streamline customer onboarding and ensure scalable pipelines.

You will collaborate with engineers and domain experts to strengthen data quality, platform reliability, and developer experience, applying AI pragmatically to improve productivity and data governance.

Competenze

• Experience designing scalable data platforms and production data pipelines.
• Experience leading technical design and mentoring engineers.
• Strong software engineering skills for reusable frameworks, tooling, and automation for data processing.
• Understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, data contracts, and validation across multiple source systems.
• Experience with automated testing, integration testing, quality gates, and deployment pipelines.
• Excellent English (C1+) and collaboration across teams.

Mansioni

• Shape the technical direction of the data platform, tooling, and engineering standards.
• Design and improve reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation for data pipeline development.
• Define standards for testing, CI/CD, quality gates, and platform reliability.
• Develop reusable approaches to data modeling, schemas, data contracts, validation, and schema evolution.
• Improve observability, data quality, lineage, and developer experience across the platform.
• Turn recurring delivery challenges into scalable platform capabilities that reduce customer onboarding effort.
• Apply AI to engineering workflows, establishing clear guardrails and measuring its impact on productivity and quality.
• Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions and technical trade-offs.
• Document best practices and support the adoption of standard platform patterns across teams.
• Evaluate architectural decisions against time-to-value, cost-to-serve, and delivery predictability.

Conoscenze

Data platform engineering

Technical leadership

Programming

Data architecture

Testing & CI/CD

Platform reliability

Data quality & lineage

Developer experience

AI in engineering

Architectural judgment

English proficiency

Collaboration

Descrizione del lavoro

Join our team to shape the technical direction of a data platform that makes complex industrial data usable, reliable, and scalable. Build reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation that simplify customer onboarding and help engineering teams deliver safer, more consistent data pipelines. Work closely with engineers and domain experts to strengthen data quality, platform reliability, and developer experience while applying AI pragmatically to improve engineering productivity.

Our Client

was established with the mission to fundamentally transform the execution of capital projects and operations. Designed by industry experts for industry experts, our Client's platform empowers users to digitally search, visualize, navigate, and collaborate on assets. Drawing on 30 years of software expertise and 180 years of industrial legacy as part of the renowned Scandinavian business group, Client plays an active role in advancing the global energy transition. The company operates from Norway, the UK, and the U.S.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape the technical direction of the data platform, tooling, and engineering standards
• Design and improve reusable frameworks, internal tools, and automation for data pipeline development
• Define standards for testing, CI/CD, quality gates, and platform reliability
• Develop reusable approaches to data modeling, schemas, data contracts, validation, and schema evolution
• Improve observability, data quality, lineage, and developer experience across the platform
• Turn recurring delivery challenges into scalable platform capabilities that reduce customer onboarding effort
• Apply AI to engineering workflows, establishing clear guardrails and measuring its impact on productivity and quality
• Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions and technical trade-offs
• Document best practices and support the adoption of standard platform patterns across teams
• Evaluate architectural decisions against time-to-value, cost-to-serve, and delivery predictability

Requirements:

• Data Platform Engineering: Extensive experience designing, building, and evolving scalable data platforms and production data pipelines
• Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, and establishing engineering standards across teams
• Programming: Strong software engineering skills, with experience developing reusable frameworks, tooling, and automation for data processing
• Data Architecture: Strong understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, data contracts, and validation across multiple source systems
• Testing and CI/CD: Practical experience implementing automated testing, integration testing, quality gates, and deployment pipelines
• Platform Reliability: Experience improving observability, diagnosing operational issues, and building reliable data services
• Data Quality and Lineage: Experience implementing approaches that detect data issues early and make data flows easier to understand and troubleshoot
• Developer Experience: Ability to simplify engineering workflows and turn repeated manual work into reusable, maintainable tools
• AI-Assisted Engineering: Ability to identify practical AI use cases, evaluate their effectiveness, and define safeguards for quality and reliability
• Architectural Judgment: Ability to balance technical quality, delivery speed, operational cost, and long-term maintainability
• English Proficiency: C1+ with the ability to communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions clearly
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build alignment across engineering teams and domain experts

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits
• not applicable for freelancers