Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Core Data team and play a key role in transforming TheFork's data capabilities through the implementation of a modern, self-service Data Platform (DPaaS).
• In this role, you will not only build scalable, production-grade data pipelines, but also contribute to designing and evolving the platform that enables domain teams to autonomously produce and consume trusted data products.
• You will apply strong software engineering principles to data engineering, help define governance standards, and actively contribute to shifting our organisation from a centralised BI model to a federated, domain-oriented data ecosystem.
• You will report directly to the Senior Data Engineering Manager and work in close collaboration with:
• DataOps team : who own the Data Platform infrastructure
• Architects : to ensure technical decisions align with enterprise architecture
• BI teams, Engineering teams and Data Science teams : who are the main consumers of the platform
• Technical Leadership & Delivery
• Design and implement scalable, production-grade data pipelines following strong software engineering practices (version control, CI/CD, automated testing, observability).
• Lead the evolution of orchestration patterns in Airflow to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical POCs to evaluate new tools, architectural patterns, and performance improvements aligned with the platform roadmap.
• Contribute to shaping and validating the target data architecture in collaboration with Architects, Staff Engineers, and DataOps.
• Proactively identify system weaknesses and design for failure, defining mitigation strategies and resilience patterns.
• Data Governance & Quality
• Implement and enforce data contracts and quality controls aligned with defined SLOs.
• Apply data modeling best practices including medallion architecture to create trusted, reusable data assets
• Contribute to establishing domain ownership principles and clear single sources of truth.
• Ensure lineage, metadata, and observability mechanisms are embedded by design in all pipelines.
• Enablement & Collaboration
• Drive technical alignment across teams through clear documentation, standards, and mentoring.
• Partner with DataOps to ensure infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform automation at scale.
• Actively support product and engineering teams in adopting the platform, with a strong focus on developer experience.
• Build cross-functional relationships to accelerate adoption and drive platform impact.
• Technical Expertise
• You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications
• Minimum 6 years of data engineering experience, including significant exposure to production-grade data platforms and cross-team leadership.
• Data Platform & Architecture
• Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud lakehouse in production-grade environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks , ...).
• Strong expertise in analytical data modeling (including medallion architecture) and safe schema evolution.
• Proven experience designing scalable, incremental ELT pipelines.
• Strong understanding of MPP systems and distributed data processing principles.
• Performance & Cost Optimization
• Experience optimizing query performance and compute cost in cloud data warehouses.
• Cost-aware design mindset.
• Orchestration & Data Integration
• Advanced proven experience with Airflow , including scalable DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling strategies.
• Strong experience designing and operating production-grade ELT pipelines using modern integration tools (e.g. Airbyte or similar) or custom ingestion frameworks.
• Experience designing self-service data platform capabilities is a strong plus.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong experience with AWS-based data architectures (S3, IAM, networking fundamentals).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform ).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
• Understanding of security-by-design principles in cloud data environments.
• Data Quality, Governance & Observability
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks, data contracts, and validation strategies.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage tracking, and monitori

Additional Information

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