Senior Data Engineer (Google Cloud, Python, SQL, PySpark)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bratislava
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering.
- Strong experience designing, building and operating production-grade data pipelines and data platforms.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL and PySpark.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery.
- Experience with Git-based development workflows and collaborative software engineering practices.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational data platforms and large-scale data processing using Apache Spark.
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
- Strong understanding of data modelling, data integration, data lakes and data warehousing concepts.
- Experience with cloud object storage technologies such as Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2).
- Experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience supporting production environments, including incident management, monitoring and root cause analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with Power BI, Cognos, Tableau or Looker.
- Experience with dbt or other modern data transformation frameworks.
- Experience managing distributed data processing platforms and clusters.
- Familiarity with Financial Markets and Group Treasury products and processes.
Full description
Financial Markets Client Control (FMCC) is part of Financial Markets (FM) within ING Wholesale Banking supporting 26 countries globally.
FMCC is responsible for ensuring effective control throughout the client lifecycle, from onboarding to exit, for Financial Markets, Group Treasury, Global Capital Markets and Bank Mendes Gans. The department operates according to Agile principles and is continuously evolving towards a DevOps way of working.
Your role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, build and maintain scalable, secure and governed data solutions that support FMCC's business, regulatory and control objectives. You will translate business requirements into robust data products, pipelines, data models and reporting solutions, helping stakeholders make informed decisions based on reliable data.
You will combine hands-on engineering expertise with end-to-end ownership across the full data lifecycle, from solution design and development through deployment, monitoring and support. In addition, you will contribute to strategic data, analytics and AI initiatives while helping to establish engineering standards, improve ways of working and foster a strong engineering culture.
As a senior member of the team, you will actively share knowledge, coach colleagues and promote collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement in line with ING's principles and values.
The role reports functionally to the Data Domain Area Lead in Amsterdam and hierarchically to the FMCC Data Solutions Lead in Bratislava.
What you'll do
- Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products across ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption layers.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into robust technical solutions, governed data models and reporting capabilities.
- Build reliable ETL/ELT processes with appropriate controls for data quality, lineage and traceability.
- Contribute to solution design and technical standards for scalable, maintainable and compliant data solutions.
- Ensure engineering quality through automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD practices, monitoring and operational ownership.
- Manage deployments of new and enhanced data solutions across development, test and production environments.
- Assess the impact of changes and support successful implementation through close stakeholder collaboration.
- Partner with analysts, product owners, data scientists and business stakeholders to prioritize work and deliver against agreed objectives.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, design decisions and operational procedures.
- Explore opportunities to leverage data assets for advanced analytics and AI-driven use cases.
- Coach and mentor team members while driving knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.