Barcelona (Hybrid) - Type: Full-time Get to know us:
Data at Frekuent isn't a side project - every tap on a Frekuent Spot, every loyalty reward, every fraud check produces it, and we're scaling fast enough that our current platform is starting to show the seams. We're hiring a Lead Data Engineer to own that platform end-to-end: not write a roadmap slide, but rebuild the pipelines, standards, and trust so the whole company - including the AI tools we're building on top of our data - can run on real numbers instead of guesses.
You'll work directly with the exec team, and they want a partner who turns ambiguous business problems into a working data platform, not just a bigger backlog.
Set technical direction for data modeling, ETL/ELT, and infrastructure-as-code, and lead the engineers who build it.
Own performance, reliability, and cost as data volume grows - not a "set it up once" job.
Build real CI/CD for analytics, and set the bar for data quality, lineage, governance, and observability.
Champion a real data culture - push our products and processes to generate clean, reliable,



trustworthy data.
Own the data team's OKRs (trust, self-service, foundations, AI enablement), mentor engineers, help hire, and bring in tools that genuinely help.
8+ years in data engineering, including 3+ in a lead or technical-direction role.
~ Deep SQL and strong Python, with hands-on experience running a cloud data platform - Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks (Fabric a strong plus).
~ Real SQL Server experience - schema design, query tuning, CDC/replication at volume - plus strong modern-data-stack skills, dbt especially.
~ Genuinely fluent with AI tooling - you know exactly where it helps and where it doesn't.
~ Experience with high-throughput data needs; Track record mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects, comfortable in a fast-scaling, shifting-priority environment.

Have worked on Azure, or hold a Microsoft certification - DP-600 or DP-203.
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📌 Lead Engineer/Data Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Frekuent
📍 Barcelona