Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer (Databricks) | 12-Month Contract | Remote (Europe)

🚀 Senior Data Engineer (Databricks) 📍 Remote within Europe ✈️ Occasional fully-expensed travel to Prague (typically quarterly) 🕒 Initial 12-month contract 💰 Competitive day rate 🏢 AI Innovation & Incubation Programme

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a cutting-edge AI incubator focused on developing next-generation AI products, services and capabilities. You'll work on high-impact initiatives involving large-scale data engineering, machine learning enablement, Azure cloud technologies and modern data platforms.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines
• Develop scalable ETL/ELT solutions for large and complex datasets
• Build and optimise data processing workflows using Databricks and PySpark
• Support AI and Data Science teams with production-ready datasets and feature pipelines
• Implement data quality, lineage, monitoring and observability capabilities
• Work closely with Machine Learning teams to enable NLP, NLU and AI use cases
• Contribute to CI/CD and MLOps practices across the data platform
• Ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence across the full data lifecycle

Required Skills

✅ Strong Data Engineering experience

✅ Databricks and PySpark expertise

✅ Advanced Python skills

✅ ETL / ELT design and implementation

✅ Azure Data Platform experience

✅ Data quality, governance and observability knowledge

✅ Experience building production-grade data pipelines

✅ Exposure to Machine Learning and AI workloads

Nice to Have

⭐ Azure AI Services

⭐ MLflow

⭐ MLOps and CI/CD implementation

⭐ NLP / NLU project experience

⭐ Experience in enterprise-scale AI or data platforms

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Databricks
• PySpark
• Python
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure AI Services
• MLflow
• CI/CD
• MLOps
• ETL/ELT
• Data Quality & Governance

Working Model

• Fully remote day-to-day
• Occasional team workshops and planning sessions in Prague (typically once per quarter)
• All business travel and accommodation expenses covered
• Flexible working environment
• International engineering and AI team

📩 Interested? Send me a message or apply directly to discuss the project, team structure and rate details.