SENIOR DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER, MADRID

Senior Data Platform Engineer
Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Join Our Data Team at Ebury.

Eburys strategic growth plan would not be possible without our Data team, and we are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Engineering team!

Our data mission is to develop and maintain Eburys Data Warehouse and serve it to the whole company, where Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Analysts work collaboratively to:
- Build ETLs and data pipelines to serve data in our platform
- Provide clean, transformed data ready for analysis and used by our BI tool
- Develop department and project-specific data models and serve these to teams across the company to drive decision-making
- Automate end solutions so we can all spend time on high-value analysis rather than running data extracts

We are looking for a skilled Senior Data Engineer with a strong focus on building and optimizing data platforms to join our growing team.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining robust frameworks and best practices to support our analytics and ML initiatives. You will work closely with data analysts and other engineering teams to ensure our data platform is scalable, secure, and efficient.

What we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Discretionary bonus based on performance
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects

Responsibilities:
- Establish performance monitoring to track the speed and efficiency of data processing and analysis, and address bottlenecks or slowdowns as needed.
- Participate in data modeling reviews and discussions to validate the models accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business objectives.
- Work on reducing technical debt by addressing code that is outdated, inefficient, or no longer aligned with best practices or business needs.
- Help to implement data governance policies, including data quality standards, data access control, and data classification.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into platform capabilities.
- Automate data ingestion, transformation, testing, and integration processes to enhance data accessibility and data quality.
- Evaluate and integrate new data tools and technologies to continuously improve the platforms capabilities.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation on platform architecture, data flows, and operational processes.
- Collaborate with team members to reinforce best practices across the platform, encouraging a shared commitment to quality.

About you:
- 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Experience with our modern data stack tools (a plus!)
- Familiarity with dimensional modeling/data warehousing concepts.
- Basic understanding of data governance practices
- Experience with software engineering practices in data
- Attention to detail and commitment to data quality
- Fluency in English (Spanish, a plus)

If youre excited about this job opportunity but your background doesnt match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

About Us

Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.

Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.

Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a 350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognized awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europes Fastest-Growing Companies.

ETL, Python, SQL

ETL, Python, SQL