Lead Data Engineer (Dataiku)

Location: Fully remote from Portugal or Spain. Full-time, 40 hours per week.

Salary: €45,000–€55,000 gross per year, or €250–€300 daily B2B rate. Meal allowance: €10.20/day.

Company

hirify.global is an international data and AI consulting group with 2,800 consultants and experts across 28 countries, focused on industrialising AI and building data foundations for intelligent enterprises.

What you will do

• Design scalable Dataiku DSS architectures, including projects, zones, Data Collections, and Shared Projects.
• Integrate Dataiku solutions into complex enterprise IT and production data environments.
• Establish data quality controls, monitoring, alerting, and production-readiness standards.
• Define coding standards, architecture guidelines, documentation practices, and code review processes.
• Drive Dataiku governance covering naming conventions, connection management, security, and group-based permissions.
• Lead and mentor Data Engineers while delivering technical recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of professional Data Engineering experience, including at least 3 years of hands-on Dataiku DSS experience in production environments.
• Experience as a Technical Lead or in a comparable technical leadership role, with enterprise data platforms and production data environments.
• Strong experience designing complex Dataiku flows, including visual, SQL, and Python recipes, scenarios, bundles, and Automation Nodes.
• Understanding of Dataiku deployment and production architectures, data modelling, data quality, and data lineage.
• Advanced SQL and strong Python skills, including pandas and the Dataiku Python API.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, and at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, development, UAT, and production environments, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Ability to lead and mentor Data Engineers while remaining technically hands-on; strong communication, consulting, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent French and professional working proficiency in English required.

Nice to have

• Dataiku DSS administration, API Nodes, custom plugins, Govern, or LLM Mesh experience.
• Dataiku Core Designer or Advanced Designer certification; ML Practitioner or Developer certification is an advantage.
• PySpark, Scala, Kubernetes including EKS, AKS, or GKE, Terraform, or Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Familiarity with Collibra, Informatica CDGC, or dbt.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee or B2B contractor engagement; full-time work with an ASAP start.
• Private medical insurance, flexible benefits, and 22 days of annual leave increasing to up to 25 days.
• Continuous learning through KLX – hirify.global Learning Experience.
• Collaborative, international, and human-centred working environment.
• Candidate use of AI assistance during interviews is strictly prohibited and may result in immediate disqualification.