Location: Europe (Remote) — must work South Africa hours (UTC+2)Employment: Full-timeSeniority: Mid-Senior LevelSalary: $80,000 – $120,000 (estimate; client hasn’t disclosed range)About The Company A fast-growing privacy-preserving data collaboration fintech (Series A, backed by a general credit bureau and a major retailer), with teams spanning South Africa, the UK, the US, the UAE and Brazil. Banks and lenders use the platform to work with retailer and telco data without raw personal data changing hands — mainly to help people with no credit history access credit.The role The Data Team Is Migrating Legacy SQL Server / Azure Synapse Stored‑procedure Pipelines Onto Open‑source Apache Spark And Delta Lake. You WillRebuild T‑SQL logic as typed, tested PySpark pipelinesProve the new pipelines match legacy outputsBuild FastAPI services that run and report on pipeline jobsAdd provider‑neutral LLM features (local and hosted models) into data workflowsSpec-first codebase: design docs and ADRs,



with tests and documentation shipped alongside every change.Core stack Python, PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, FastAPI, pytest, Docker, T‑SQL, LLM integrationRequired Modern typed Python (3.10+) as primary production language, with type hints passing pyright/mypy and Pydantic models — writes maintainable, tested code, not only notebooks2+ years production Apache Spark / PySpark — DataFrame API and Spark SQL, including partitioning and performance tuningBased in Europe or South Africa, able to work South Africa hours (UTC+2)Nice to have SQL Server / Synapse migration to Spark with validated output parityOpen‑source or self‑managed Spark (Kubernetes, EMR, Dataproc, Spark Connect)FastAPI, LLM integration, privacy/data governance (PII tokenisation, GDPR/POPIA), fintech/banking/credit backgroundSkills: apache spark,credit,fastapi,pipelines,apache,azure,fintech,data,sql,python,spark,english#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Python/Spark or AI Developer (Barcelona)
🏢 HRBaires
📍 Barcelona