One of the companies we collaborate with at Joppy, a TOP Fintech, is looking for a Data Engineering Lead to join the team.Work modality: FULL REMOTE from anywhere in SPAIN or HYBRID in Barcelona.What challenges you’ll be solving
People Management & Growth:
Lead, mentor, and directly manage the data engineering team, taking responsibility for their career development, hiring, and setting operational standards.Modern Architecture Design:
Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines and data lake/lakehouse architectures within a cloud-native product ecosystem.Self-Service Data Platform:
Drive the transformation of our data infrastructure toward a self-service model, ensuring high data reliability, governance, versioning, and quality control.Cross-functional Collaboration:
Partner with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate complex real-world data problems into robust, production-grade products.Performance Optimization:
Own and optimize end-to-end ETL/ELT workflows,



minimizing downtime and ensuring the infrastructure scales pragmatically with the company’s growth.What you’ll need (Must-have)
Proven People Management Experience:
Strong track record of directly managing teams of Data Engineers (including 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and team scaling), specifically within Product-driven or Scale-up environments. Profiles coming exclusively from traditional IT Consulting or enterprise-corporate governance will not be considered.Hands-on Technical Background:
Deep, recent technical depth in cloud-native data platform engineering, with the ability to participate in technical decisions, code reviews, and pipeline optimization.Mandatory AWS Cloud Stack:
Strong background designing and implementing modern data platforms in cloud environments natively with AWS.Modern Data Stack Expertise:
Solid, production-grade experience with Kafka, Airflow, dbt, and cloud data warehouses (ideally Redshift, though Snowflake or BigQuery is a

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