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Senior Data Engineer
Quantum
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Hybrid (inferred: EU/NL where applicable)
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Key details
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that power real-time analytics and reporting
- Take ownership of our semantic layer using Cube.js, enabling reliable, self-serve analytics across the organisation
- Integrate and unify data from Salesforce, CDP, and SCV sources, ensuring clean, consistent data flow across marketing and customer data platforms
- Lead the development of transformation workflows using dbt, with a strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and data quality
- Architect and manage pipeline orchestration via Apache Airflow, ensuring reliability and observability at every stage
- Monitor and optimise pipeline performance for low-latency, high-throughput use cases
- Collaborate closely with Data Architect, marketing analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure data infrastructure directly supports business objectives
- Mentor and support more junior engineers, helping to raise the bar across the team
- Company mission
- Information not specified
Primary stack
Core technologies
Python (Programming Language)SQLAWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)AzureSalesforce
Benefits
- Private Health Care (Bupa)
- Hybrid Working (3 days in office)
- Travel Insurance
- Competitive Base Salary
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)
- Market-Leading Training Programme
- Recognition & Reward Scheme
- Annual Company Conference
- Regular Happy Hours & Team Lunches
- Free Coffee, Drinks & Snacks
Requirements & details
- Significant hands-on experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex data initiatives end to end
- Great understanding of semantic layers such as Cube.js; you've built and maintained semantic layers and understand pre-aggregations, caching strategies, and multi-tenancy
- Strong experience integrating Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CDP, and Single Customer View (SCV) data; you understand the nuances of customer and marketing data at scale
- Expert-level SQL and proven experience building robust transformation pipelines with dbt
- Solid experience orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow in production environments
- Comfortable working across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for data ingestion, storage, and processing
- Proficiency in Python or a similar language for pipeline development and automation
- Strong data modelling instincts; you think carefully about how data is structured, named, and consumed downstream
- You're as comfortable whiteboarding architecture with engineers as you are explaining data concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Calm and focused in a fast-moving environment; you can prioritise well and bring others along with you
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- You lead by example, care about the team's success, and leave things better than you found them
- Python, SQL, dbt, Apache Airflow, Cube.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, Salesforce
- Python (Programming Language)
- SQL
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Azure
- Salesforce
