Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

full-time, Amsterdam, Data, IT/Software Development

Your mission

As a Senior Data Engineer at Sam Media, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our data pipelines, data warehouses, and other data-related infrastructure. Your role will be crucial in ensuring that data is collected, processed, and made available for analysis, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Pipeline Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines to collect, process, and transform data from various sources into a usable format.

2. Data Warehouse Management: Manage and optimise our data warehouse to ensure high performance, availability, and data integrity.

3. Data Integration: Integrate and consolidate data from multiple sources, including databases, APIs, and external data providers.

4. ETL Processes: Create and maintain ETL processes to move, clean, and transform data for analysis and reporting purposes.

5. Data Quality Assurance: Implement data quality checks and monitoring processes to identify and rectify data inconsistencies or anomalies.

6. Performance Tuning: Monitor and optimise data pipelines and databases for performance, scalability, and reliability.

7. Collaboration: Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs.

8. Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of data engineering processes, configurations, and best practices.

Your profile

• Proven experience in data engineering or a related role.

• Proficiency in data integration, ETL processes, and data warehousing.

• Strong Python programming skills. Skills in PHP are nice to have.

• Experience with database technologies, data modeling, real-time data and SQL query optimization.

• Familiarity with data orchestration and workflow management tools (e.g., Apache Airflow).

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and their data services.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, diverse, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.

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