Data Engineering Principal

Metyis is growing! We are looking for a Data Engineering Principal with 8+ years of experience to join our Data and Analytics Team, in Amsterdam.

What we offer

• Interact with senior stakeholders at our clients on regular basis to drive their business towards impactful change.

• Become the go-to person for end-to-end data handling, management, and analytics processes.

• Lead your team in creating the pipeline for Data management, data visualization, and analytics products, including automated services, and APIs.

• Working with Data Scientists to take data throughout its lifecycle - acquisition, exploration, data cleaning, integration, analysis, interpretation, and visualization.

• Become part of a fast-growing international and diverse team.

Who we are

Metyis is a global and forward-thinking firm operating across a wide range of industries, developing and delivering Big Data, Digital Commerce, Marketing & Design solutions and Advisory services. At Metyis, our long-term partnership model brings long-lasting impact and growth to our business partners and clients through extensive execution capabilities.

With our team, you can experience a collaborative environment with highly skilled multidisciplinary experts, where everyone has room to build bigger and bolder ideas. Being part of Metyis means you can speak your mind and be creative with your knowledge. Imagine the things you can achieve with a team that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

We are Metyis. Partners for Impact.

What you will do

• Lead, influence & implement the technical roadmap of our clients, in light of overall technology and architecture roadmaps.

• Be responsible for the architecture, making sure that technical and non-technical components work together in the product to deliver the customer needs.

• Lead and Develop the digital development and operations using Python, Spark, RESTful API and Microsoft Azure Cloud, ideally with some Data Insights experience.

• Steer the technical excellence of the application and consistency with relevant digital frameworks, best practices and standards.

• Coach and enable other product team members to deliver best-in-class products.

• Lead project activities and will be responsible for the evaluation of business needs and objectives, in collaboration with the project team and other stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years of experience in a similar role, with experience in developing and deploying ETL solutions on Azure.

• Solid knowledge of data warehousing principles, concepts and best practices (e.g. ODS, data marts, data lakes, data vault, 3NF).

• Good understanding of common platforms and practices regarding digital development; Cloud based setups, Advanced Analytics and computing environments and GitHub (or similar) and CI/CD workflows.

• Experience in setting up automated testing frameworks including unit tests, integration tests.

• Understanding of modern cloud based architecture (Lambda & Kappa architectures).

• Advanced SQL, data transformation and data profiling skills.

• Experience of building production ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.

• Data governance experience.

• 3-5 years of hands on experience with Azure: Data factory, Databricks, Synapse (DWH), Azure Functions, App logic, and other data analytics services, including streaming.

• Experience with Airflow, Kubernetes, Great expectations is a plus.

• Programming languages: Python (PySpark), scripting languages like Bash.

• Basic knowledge of PowerBI is a plus.

• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services.

• Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset.

• Passionate about continuous improvement and working collaboratively.

• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to convey designs and ideas to a wider audience.

• People Management experience (at least 5 team members).

• Experience working on multiple projects.

• Experience in service consulting and stakeholder management.

• Project design and planning.

• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics, Business or other related technical disciplines (Master's Degree is a plus).

In a changing world, diversity and inclusion are core values for team well-being and performance. At Metyis, we want to welcome and retain all talents, regardless of gender, age, origin or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether or not they are living with a disability, as each of them has their own experience and identity.