Data Engineering Lead

Data Engineering Lead

Joppy is collaborating with a TOP Fintech company to find a Data Engineering Lead. This role offers full remote work from anywhere in Spain or a hybrid option in Barcelona.

About the Role

We're seeking a hands-on and strategic Data Engineering Lead to spearhead our data engineering initiatives and manage a growing team. Your responsibilities will include designing scalable data architectures, optimizing data pipelines, and ensuring company-wide data reliability. Depending on your experience, you may also oversee data analyst workflows and team management.

What challenges you'll be solving

• Lead, mentor, and grow the data engineering team, setting best practices in architecture, development, and operations.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines and data lake architectures.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver robust solutions.
• Own the development and maintenance of ETL/ELT processes, data quality, versioning, and governance.
• Optimize performance across data workflows, ensuring efficiency and minimal downtime.
• Champion a data-first culture, ensuring our data infrastructure scales with the company’s needs.
• Support the potential integration of data analyst workflows and oversight, depending on your scope and experience.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience leading or mentoring data engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong background in designing and implementing data platforms in cloud environments (ideally AWS, but GCP or Azure is also valuable).
• Solid experience with Kafka, Airflow, DBT and modern data warehouses (ideally Redshift, but BigQuery or Snowflake is also valuable).
• Advanced knowledge of Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with DevOps culture, CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform).
• Deep understanding of data governance, versioning, and quality control.
• (Nice to have) Experience working with data analysts or BI teams, and ability to guide analytics efforts.

What is offered

• A strong and sustainable foundation, providing a secure and reliable workplace with freedom and trust.
• A fellowship and supportive culture fostering a sense of belonging.
• Challenging projects to push your skills and knowledge.
• A unique and inspiring office environment (if applicable).
• 23 vacation days + 2 days of free disposal per year.
• Professional development including access to a language learning platform.
• Flexible compensation plan for transportation, restaurants, and kindergarten with Cobee.
• Health insurance discounts with Sanitas and DKV.
• Hybrid work from Barcelona or full remote from Spain.
• Flexible working hours.
• A personal budget for professional development.
• Office workshops and meet-ups to encourage community participation and career growth.

About Joppy

Joppy is a technology recruitment platform built for developers by developers. Key features include: No CV required, anonymous profiles by default, user control over communication, relevant job offers, and rewards for successful hires.

Key skills/competency

• Data Engineering Lead
• Data Architecture
• Data Pipelines
• ETL/ELT
• Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Kafka
• Airflow
• DBT
• Python
• SQL