Senior/Lead Data Engineer

Nix; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work format

Competitive salary

Career growth

Mentorship program

Education reimbursement

Team events

Location-based benefits

Job summary

N-iX is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Engineer to join our client team. You will own and extend data pipelines and analytics data models, integrating data from multiple sources into AWS Data Lake and using Airflow to orchestrate workflows.

You will translate business requirements into robust data solutions, collaborate with analysts, and demonstrate ownership and sound engineering judgment in a fast-moving European tech environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills with data modeling for analytics (fact and dimension tables).
• Experience with workflow orchestration, preferably Airflow.
• Experience with AWS-based data environments (Athena, Data Lake).
• Ability to clarify requirements, investigate issues, and propose pragmatic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve existing data pipelines and datasets.
• Design and maintain analytical data models for analytics use cases.
• Ingest and integrate data from multiple sources into AWS Data Lake.
• Build, deploy, validate, monitor, and backfill data pipelines as needed.
• Collaborate with data analysts to deliver reliable datasets.
• Clarify requirements with stakeholders and challenge assumptions.
• Ensure data quality through validation and testing, owning end-to-end delivery.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling while critically validating generated solutions.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Airflow

Ownership & judgment

Analytics pipelines

Tools

AWS Data Lake

Athena

DBT

Snowflake

Codex / AI tooling

Job description

N-iX is looking for Senior/Lead Data Engineer to join the team

About the client

Our client is a leading European online car marketplace, connecting car buyers and sellers across the continent. The platform serves over 30 million monthly users and operates across 18 countries, making it one of the largest and most trusted digital marketplaces for vehicles in Europe.

About the role

We are looking for a Data / Analytics Engineer to support the client team. The role sits close to the data analysts and business stakeholders, with a primary focus on maintaining and extending the data pipelines and data models that power analytics and reporting. The core stack includes SQL, Airflow, Athena, AWS Data Lake, and AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex.

The client is currently migrating away from DBT and Snowflake to the clients data platform. The destination cloud and data platform already exists and is operational, and the migration itself will be handled by a different team — so this is not an infrastructure or platform engineering role. Instead, we need an engineer who can understand analytics use cases, translate business requirements into robust data solutions, and work independently to get those solutions into production. Beyond the technical skills, we are looking for someone with a strong sense of ownership and engineering judgment: a person who does not simply execute a ticket or accept a blocker at face value, but actively clarifies unclear requirements, investigates problems, proposes alternatives when the obvious approach does not work, and involves the right people when decisions are needed.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve existing data pipelines, and build new pipelines and datasets based on analytics and business requirements.
• Design and maintain analytical data models, including fact and dimension models.
• Ingest and integrate data from different source systems into the AWS Data Lake.
• Build, deploy, validate, monitor, and, when necessary, backfill data pipelines.
• Partner with data analysts to understand their requirements and provide reliable, easy-to-use datasets.
• Clarify requirements with business stakeholders rather than implementing ambiguous requests as-is.
• Ensure data quality through appropriate validation and testing, investigating data and pipeline issues and taking ownership of finding pragmatic solutions end to end.
• Use AI-assisted development tooling effectively while critically reviewing and validating generated solutions.

Requirements:

• Hands-on data engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines, ideally within analytics-driven environments.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Experience with data modeling for analytics, including fact and dimension tables.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, preferably Airflow.
• Experience working with AWS-based data environments, particularly Athena and AWS Data Lake.
• Experience with data validation, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Strong sense of ownership and engineering judgment: comfortable working with incomplete requirements, proactively seeking context, challenging assumptions when appropriate, and looking for practical solutions rather than stopping at the first blocker.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills, with clear communication across data analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with data mesh architectures or working in a data mesh environment.
• Experience with marketplace, web/app, or digital analytics data.
• Experience with DBT and/or Snowflake.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex

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