Tech Lead Data Engineer
Tech Lead Data Engineer
Kraków, PL, 30-302
Type of contract: Employment contract
Salary range: 17400 - 26700 PLN gross
What will you do?
Join a strategic data transformation initiative focused on building and enhancing a large-scale data pipeline that feeds and reconciles inbound data from deal stores to consumer regulatory and settlement systems. You will work on modernizing enterprise-grade financial services platforms within a highly regulated environment, leveraging cloud-native technologies, big data solutions, and distributed streaming architectures. The role involves designing high-performance systems, improving data processing capabilities, and collaborating closely with technical and business stakeholders.
Your tasks
- Design and develop scalable data processing solutions using Spark and Databricks
- Build and enhance data pipelines using PySpark, Python and Java
- Develop high-performance, high-availability distributed systems
- Implement and maintain streaming solutions based on Kafka architectures
- Design and optimize cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure
- Support CI/CD processes and DevOps practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver business requirements
- Analyze complex technical flows and propose suitable technical solutions
- Participate in system modernization and application transformation initiatives
- Ensure reliability, scalability and performance of data platforms
Your skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering or data engineering experience
- Strong experience with Spark and Databricks
- Hands-on experience with PySpark
- Strong Python programming skills
- Good Java development experience
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience designing and implementing Kafka-based streaming solutions
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building distributed, high-throughput and low-latency systems
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently on complex technical challenges
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in Agile teams
Nice to have
- Experience providing Level 3 (DEV) production support in a high-pressure environment
We offer
- Hybrid work in our client's office (Kraków) 3 days a week
- Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
- Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
- Online training and certifications
- Access to e-learning platform
- Social events