Senior Data Engineer — Remote-First EU Payments Lakehouse

European Payments Initiative; Union, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Learning budget €5,000 per year

Job summary

European Payments Initiative (EPI) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines for payments, settlement and analytics. You will ingest data from operational systems and third parties into EPI’s lakehouse, enforce data contracts, and implement robust orchestration with CI/CD and governance in a regulated environment.

You will collaborate across analytics, backend, fraud, finance and platform teams in a remote-first, pan-European setup, contributing to a scalable data

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, backend data systems or a closely related role, with strong SQL and solid Python skills for production pipelines.
• Production experience with Databricks or an equivalent lakehouse platform, including governance, scheduling, deployment and Delta Lake design, as well as dbt modelling, testing, documentation and DAG management.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration, CI/CD and deployment automation, plus designing data contracts, schema validation, freshness SLAs and ownership boundaries.
• Strong data governance and privacy-by-design knowledge, ideally in fintech, payments, banking or another regulated sector, with experience in monitoring, data quality and incident response.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business requirements into dependable, reusable data products and governed metrics
• Fluent English (CEFR C1 or C2) and confidence communicating asynchronously in a distributed European team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reliable batch and near-real-time pipelines for payments, settlement, consumer and other critical data domains.
• Ingest and model data from operational systems, event stores and third-party sources into EPI’s lakehouse.
• Define and enforce data contracts covering schemas, ownership, quality expectations, freshness SLAs and breaking-change procedures.
• Implement orchestration, scheduling, retries, monitoring, alerting, reconciliation and incident response for production-grade, idempotent workflows.
• Apply governance and privacy-by-design principles, including PII classification, access controls, retention and auditability in line with GDPR, PSD2, DORA and internal requirements.
• Build reusable tooling, templates, CI/CD workflows and secure deployment patterns for teams delivering data products.
• Optimise storage, compute, query performance and materialisation strategies, contributing to cloud cost governance.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, backend, fraud, finance and platform teams, documenting key technical and data decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data engineering

Orchestration & CI/CD

Data governance

English communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Terraform

Kafka

GitHub Actions

Delta Lake

S3

Job description

European Payments Initiative (EPI) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data pipelines for payments, settlement and analytics. You will ingest data from operational systems and third parties into EPI’s lakehouse, enforce data contracts, and implement robust orchestration with CI/CD and governance in a regulated environment.

You will collaborate across analytics, backend, fraud, finance and platform teams in a remote-first, pan-European setup, contributing to a scalable data