Principal Data Engineer

TL;DR

Principal Data Engineer: Spearheading data engineering initiatives to tackle complex business challenges and uncover transformative insights by aligning technology strategies with business objectives. Focus on data governance, data security, and data privacy to support business and compliance requirements.

Location: Must be based in Barcelona, Spain

Company

hirify.global is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech.

What you will do

• Establish a clear vision and direction for data practices, aligning it with the overall business strategy.
• Collaborate with executive level stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and identify opportunities to leverage data and data quality.
• Consult on complex data platform programs, synchronizing cross-cutting architectural concerns and providing client-facing technical leadership.
• Design and develop intricate data processing pipelines, addressing clients' most challenging problems.
• Collaborate with data scientists to design scalable implementation and production of their models.
• Design and drive the strategy around data governance, data security and data privacy to support business and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Experience in leading the enterprise data strategy, system design, and implementation of technical solutions.
• Experience in system design using Domain-Driven Design for enterprise organizations with various domains.
• Experience creating Big Data architecture, building and operating data pipelines, and maintaining data storage within distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of data modeling and experience with modern data engineering tools and platforms, along with cloud warehousing tools.
• Experience designing and developing real-time and low-latency data streaming solutions leveraging leading technologies and industry practices (Cloud and locally hosted).
• Understanding of stakeholder management and ability to liaise between clients and other key stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates.
• Value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.