Senior Data Engineer

Location: Barcelona, Spain or Madrid, Spain. Hybrid schedule with work from home up to 2 days per week; up to 30 days per year may be worked from any location worldwide as a flex-location benefit.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and communication solutions for airports, airlines, borders, and the global air transport industry.

What you will do

• Design scalable cloud-based data architectures focused on performance, cost efficiency, and security.
• Develop reference ingestion patterns and templates for enterprise systems, APIs, and external datasets.
• Build and maintain platform services, system tables, reference implementations, and data pipelines.
• Guide portfolio teams on ETL/ELT best practices and governance-aligned data engineering.
• Apply cataloguing, data quality monitoring, and compliance practices.
• Collaborate with architects, scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to enable analytics and AI/ML use cases.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of technical experience with Big Data systems.
• Familiarity with Databricks, Spark, and event streaming technologies such as Azure Event Hub or Kafka.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, including clean coding and object-oriented programming practices.
• Cloud deployment experience, preferably with Azure.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to advise teams without owning their delivery.
• Proactive, adaptable, solution-oriented, and curious approach to learning new tools.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Power BI, Databricks Dashboards, Tableau, or other data visualization tools.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehouse design.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment supporting diverse employees across global locations and cultures.
• Flex Day allows workdays to be adjusted to personal needs and plans.
• Employee Assistance Program and Champion Health wellbeing platform.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft's Enterprise Skills Initiative, Pluralsight, Harvard Business Publishing, Stanford, and other development resources.
• Competitive benefits aligned with the local market and employment status.