Senior Data Engineer

Zencore

Europe (Remote) remote Until 8/22/2026 5+ years exp First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted March 27, 2025

Job description

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. We are seeking candidates with significant experience in Google Cloud to join our team. Our engagements aim to eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization. We embed within customer teams to provide strategic guidance, facilitate technology decisions, and execute projects in a collaborative, co-development style.

What you will do...

As a member of our Data Engineering team, you will be working with fast-paced innovative companies, leveraging Cloud as the key driver of their transformation. They will look at you as their trusted advisor, someone they can rely on and who will be there to help them along their journey on Google Cloud. You will be expected to cover a large spectrum of technology topics like ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing, Distributed Data Processing, and Streaming Data systems.

NOTE: This opportunity is available on either a full-time (FTE) or contractor basis.

Who we need...

5+ years of experience serving as a data engineer or in a comparable engineering capacity
Strong skills with Python or a JVM language (Java, Scala)
Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
Experience working with cloud data warehouses, specifically BigQuery or +Snowflake
Experience working with data platforms built on public cloud in a production setting.
Experience working with GCP native data toolset is preferred.
Having built ELT or ETL pipelines processing large amounts of data.
Experience with dbt or Airbyte is preferred.
Experience developing production Spark or Hadoop applications
Gained experience with a workload scheduling and orchestration tool such as Apache Airflow/Cloud Composer
Familiarity with modern DataOps (e.g. quality eng, testing, pipeline deployments etc) practices and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
Familiarity with the constellation of tools in the data engineering ecosystem. You should be comfortable picking up and learning a new tool, as well as recommending tools that have served you well.
Experience with batch, micro-batch, and real-time streaming architectures
Good internal and customer-facing communication skills
Experience with relational database management systems and change data capture (CDC) is a plus

Why work here...

We are professionals you can Trust. Our people have the extensive experience to get the job done
We share unbiased opinions and are comfortable with the hard truths. You are the subject matter experts for our customers.
We are the Missing Link. You will connect our customers to Google and move quickly when others can’t
We remove uncertainty and risk by clearly outlining the process of cloud migration for our customers
We accelerate timelines and do not dwell on a challenge. You’ll move faster and expose “unknown unknowns” for our customers
We show empathy. Our customers believe in us because we can relate to their complexities.

How to succeed...

First rule at Zencore - Be Kind
Own the process - own your customer’s success by proactive practices
Work hard to reach the destination, but make sure to enjoy the journey
Champion a consistent collaborative culture
Be receptive to Feedback
Challenge the Status Quo

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation and benefits.

Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Zencore is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

About this role

Summary

Develop and maintain data pipelines and architectures using cloud and big data technologies.

Job title

Senior Data Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

fully remote in Europe, remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonSQLrelational databasesbigquerysnowflakecloud data warehousesETLELTsparkhadoopairflowterraform

Preferred skills

dbtairbyteCDCreal-time streamingDataOps

Specializations

cloud data warehousesETL/ELTdistributed data processingstreaming data systemsDataOps

Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote