Senior Data Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer who will design, build, and scale our enterprise data platform ensuring reliable, secure, and high-quality data availability for analytics and AI initiatives. You will combine architectural leadership with hands-on engineering to evolve our data foundations, optimize performance and cost, enforce governance standards, and enable data-driven decision making across the organization. In this role, you will shape the technical direction of our data ecosystem while mentoring others and driving best practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate scalable data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse) and data pipelines supporting analytics and ML use cases

• Own end-to-end data workflows: ingestion (batch/streaming), transformation, storage, cataloguing, and delivery - ensuring reliability, performance and cost-efficiency

• Define and improve data architecture, data models, governance, security, and quality standards

• Take responsibility for the conception, organization and execution of data projects, including pre-sales activities (scoping, solutioning, client advisory)

• Drive the data engineering roadmap and evaluate new tools/technologies

• Implement DevOps/DataOps practices: IaC, CI/CD, automation, monitoring

• Partner with engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Mentor and guide other engineers; lead reviews and best-practice adoption

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, owning complex data systems

• Strong in Python and SQL; experience with Java/Scala/Rust a plus

• Hands-on cloud data platform expertise (e.g., Azure Synapse, Fabric, Databricks)

• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT, data modeling, data governance and security

• Solid DevOps mindset (Docker/Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, monitoring)

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Fluent in English (German is a plus)

• Willingness to travel occasionally for project needs

Austria: The law stipulates that the minimum wage must be specified in job postings. The minimum salary is 62.664 euros/year in the collective agreement. Adequate to your skills, we are willing to pay much more.

At Cloudflight, we’re committed to making a digital difference. It’s a difference that impacts businesses and society alike and one that’s fueled by our passion for technology and our dedication to sparking the brightest ideas in ourselves and others.