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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Data Engineer - **Company:** Edoers - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Google AdWords, Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Big Data, BigQuery, Bing Ads, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Code Review, Data Architecture, Data Cleansing, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Loss, Dataspaces, Data Systems, Software Debugging, Iterative and Incremental Development, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Microsoft Copilot, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, AI Coding Agents, AI-powered Productivity Tools, Kubernetes, Data Management, Data Pipelines - **Published:** October 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.recruit.net/job/lead-data-engineer-jobs/0140CA242CC72016 ## About the Role * Stakeholder Alignment & Discovery: You are skilled at navigating diverse perspectives to build technical consensus and uncover opportunities. You possess the ability to communicate technical solutions clearly to colleagues in non-technical roles. * Drive Business-Centric Analysis: Apply a strong analytical mindset to solve complex pipeline issues, ensuring every technical solution is designed with the intent to maximize business value. What you need to succeed: Bring your unique perspective, speak up, and offer disruptive solutions. You'll have the opportunity to learn and grow while making a real impact on our team and our "AI-First" transition. Here's what you need to succeed: * Technical Ownership & Strategic Thinking: You have the ability to build/scale and deliver engineering solutions at speed. You can demonstrate the technical depth to stay ahead of Big Data and Cloud infrastructure trends and the practical wisdom to apply them to complex business challenges. * Experience in Complex Data Initiatives and Data Architecture: You provide technical guidance as well as hands on development for large-scale data initiatives (ETL/ELT & Data Modeling, data applications, reverse ETL). You are capable of delivering strategic improvements to our data ecosystem that directly impact business performance. * Data Quality and Governance: Experience with designing and implementing solutions to mitigate data loss, implement robust data privacy standards and ensure high-level of data quality across online marketing data. * First experience with AI: You are able to comfortably leverage AI coding assistants to enhance the quality and delivery speed of your code. * Data Orchestration: Proven experience using data orchestrators like Airflow and Dagster. * End-to-End Project Delivery: You successfully deliver high-complexity data projects involving multiple stakeholders (Data Science, Product, Marketing). You are skilled at monitoring progress and mitigating timeline or technical risks in a fast-paced environment. * Agile Mindset: Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. You are comfortable with iterative development, participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to deliver incremental value in a fast-paced setting. * Mentorship & Feedback: You effectively give and receive feedback, including code reviews and data model deep dives. You enjoy mentoring other team members, coaching them to upgrade their technical skills and grow to the next level. * Strategic Communication: You can communicate complex data concepts and technical architectures to both technical and business stakeholders, establishing alignment within the broader organization. * Analytical Mindset: You possess a strong analytical mindset, proactively using data to validate hypotheses, ensure data quality and solve intricate problems. You don't just build pipelines; you understand the business value of the data moving through them. * Team Player: You enjoy collaborating and sharing your skills and knowledge with others. You thrive in a multicultural environment and value diverse perspectives. * Language Proficiency: You are proficient in English, allowing you to work and communicate effectively in our global and diverse workspace. Good to have * Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as Vertex AI or other AI-powered coding assistants e.g. CLine or Copilot, to accelerate development and debugging. * AI-Driven Data Solutions: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and integrate emerging AI-driven solutions into data engineering workflows (e.g., automated data cleaning, anomaly detection, or predictive schema mapping). * Data Infrastructure for AI: Beyond utilizing AI productivity tools, you understand how to design data pipelines and structures optimized for AI products (e.g., via Vertex AI). * Experimentation Mindset: A proactive desire to test new technologies and frameworks. You view "AI-First" not just as a goal, but as a tool to enhance productivity and unlock new data capabilities. * Adaptability and Learning Agility: Enthusiastic about continuously learning and quickly adapting to new AI features, LLM capabilities, and evolving data processing standards. Tech Stack you will work with: * Languages: Python and SQL (advanced) * Transformation & Governance: dbt * Orchestration: Dagster * Cloud provider: Google Cloud * Compute and Storage: Kubernetes, BigQuery, Cloud SQL * AI/ML: Vertex AI * Online Marketing APIs: Google Ads API, Bing Ads API, Meta Marketing API, TikTok API, Criteo API * Data movement: Fivetran ## Description Gain full access to exclusive job listings from leading companies worldwide. * Verified, High-Quality Jobs Only No ads, scams, or junk-just genuine opportunities. * Focus on Real Opportunities Explore thousands of open positions tailored to your lifestyle, including flexible remote jobs. * Exclusive Resume Review Receive expert feedback with personalized suggestions to enhance your resume., As an eDOer, you will have clear objectives, great challenges and a clear overview of how your work contributes to the global company project and its customers. As a Lead Data Engineer in the Performance Marketing Team you will be in charge of: * Architect & Deliver Scalable Data Products: Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data products and infrastructures that serve as foundation for Performance Marketing AI strategies. * Drive Technical Roadmap: Help define the long-term technical strategy for the Data Engineering team, ensure our infrastructure is modern, cost-efficient, resilient and aligned with industry trends in Big Data and Cloud.