Title: Lead Engineer – Data Platform . Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a integral presence. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.
As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Team / division overview DWS's data infrastructure team provides the secure, scalable and trustworthy foundation for storing, processing and distributing critical enterprise data. As Lead Engineer - Data Platform, you drive the design, built, and continuous improvement of our hybrid data platform. Own the end-to-end architecture, design and evolution of enterprise data platform capabilities across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
Define the technical roadmap, engineering standards and reusable patterns for workflow orchestration, scheduling, dependency management and data processing
Establish reliability, observability and operational standards for data platform components, including monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, capacity management and service-level objectives




Drive platform automation through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing and self-service engineering capabilities
12+ years of experience in data or platform engineering, including designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms; Deep hands-on Snowflake expertise across architecture, ingestion, transformation, workload management, performance, cost optimisation, secure data sharing and governance
~ Strong production experience with Apache Airflow, including reusable DAG patterns, dependency management, scheduling, testing, monitoring and failure recovery
~ Strong expertise in Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures, including topic design, producers and consumers, schema management, Kafka Connect, delivery semantics and replay strategies
~ Proven ability to integrate batch and streaming pipelines across Snowflake, Airflow and Kafka
~ Advanced Python and SQL skills; Java experience for Kafka-ba

📌 Lead Engineer- Data Platform (Madrid)
🏢 DWS Group
📍 Madrid