Are you ready to shape the future of a world-class data platform in a general insurance environment?

Chubb European Group is looking for a Senior Data Engineering Lead to drive the design, build, and evolution of our data platform across Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake .

You’ll set the technical direction for complex, data-heavy solutions, lead engineering squads through the full delivery lifecycle, and help define the frameworks, patterns, and integrations that power data across the business.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who wants more than delivery — someone who wants to own the “how” of a modern data platform, write code where it matters, raise the bar on engineering quality, and mentor others while turning strategy into production-ready solutions.

The role reports to the EMEA Data Engineering and Architecture Lead and works closely with engineering squads, solution architects, product owners, and business stakeholders across the region.

Lead the design, build, and optimisation of scalable, high-performance data pipelines and applications on Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure

Stay hands-on with critical code paths, solving complex technical challenges and setting the standard for quality, testing, and operational excellence

Define and promote engineering standards across squads, including coding practices, CI/CD, testing, observability, and performance

Guide delivery from discovery to go-live across multiple initiatives, ensuring speed without compromising quality, security, or maintainability

Mentor engineers, review designs and pull requests, and help grow the data engineering capability





Champion Agile ways of working to improve team effectiveness and delivery flow

Make pragmatic architecture decisions across cloud-native solutions, microservices, and event-driven patterns

Design and build core data assets on Databricks, including medallion-style data lakes, PySpark pipelines, streaming solutions, and downstream data products

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Strong hands-on experience building and operating production data platforms on Databricks and Snowflake

Deep knowledge of Spark, SQL, Python , and cloud data engineering on Azure

Proven experience leading engineering squads and owning technical direction, trade-offs, and outcomes

Strong background in data warehouse design, distributed systems, performance tuning, cost optimisation, and resilience

Experience with Databricks on Azure , PySpark , Delta Lake , Structured Streaming , Delta Live Tables , and Event Hubs/Kafka

Confidence working across the full SDLC, with strong CI/CD, automated testing, and observability practices

Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate business needs into clear technical solutions

Private medical insurance

We’re an ethical and honest company that’s wholly committed to its clients. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity in all of our employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category.

Job Schedule Full time

Regular or Temporary Regular

Legal Employer Chubb European Group SE Spanish Branch

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📌 Data Engineering Lead (Snowflake) (Madrid)
🏢 Chubb
📍 Madrid