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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Pearson
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €6,833.0 - €8,333.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Apache Spark
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/fe156a33-a018-4ac3-9a93-aafa19ff5602/lead-data-engineer

## About the Role

+ Afgeronde WO- of HBO-opleiding in een technische richting
 + Minimaal 6 jaar ervaring als data engineer, waarvan enkele jaren in een leidende rol
 + Sterke kennis van Python, SQL en Spark
 + Ervaring met cloudplatformen zoals AWS, Azure of GCP en met tooling als Airflow en dbt
 + Je overtuigt zowel engineers als management van je aanpak

## Description

Als Lead Data Engineer geef je technisch leiding aan dataprojecten bij opdrachtgevers. Je ontwerpt dataplatformen en pipelines, zet de standaard voor het team en blijft zelf volop bouwen. Je adviseert opdrachtgevers over architectuur en helpt engineers om beter te worden. Binnen de community deel je jouw ervaring via sessies en reviews. Zo til je niet alleen je project, maar de hele club naar een hoger niveau.
Jouw takenpakket

 + Ontwerpen en bouwen van schaalbare datapipelines en platformen
 + Technisch aansturen van data engineers binnen het project
 + Vaststellen van standaarden voor codekwaliteit en datamodellering
 + Adviseren van opdrachtgevers over data-architectuur in de cloud
 + Reviewen van code en coachen van teamleden
 + Signaleren van kansen voor verbetering bij de opdrachtgever


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