Data Engineer – Scala/Spark/Kubernetes
12 month contract, Rotterdam
Up to 800EUR/day

A globally respected FTSE-100 based in the heart of Rotterdam (Netherlands) is currently on the lookout for a Data Engineer to join their Digital Transformation team. This is an initial 6mth contract, but the programme of work is expected to last up to 2 years. The team is small and cross-functional, aiming for rapid growth in the near future and this role will give you the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking and innovative team using the latest tech, working alongside like-minded experts.

The right Data Engineer will most likely be a senior software engineer, with solid experience and a passion for data. You’ll be able to engineer a complete data-centric solution from scratch, collecting functional and non-functional requirements, taking into account technical environments, business constraints and enterprise organizations. You’ll like working with data scientists and you’ll speak their language. You’ll keep learning new technologies, architecture patterns, programming languages and machine learning algorithms, and be enthusiastic about innovation in software engineering and not afraid to contribute to open-source projects. Most of all, you’ll be curious about the big picture and passionate about bringing data to life.

We expect a data engineer to bring a broad software engineering experience:
Backend and/or Front End development in any programming language of your choice
Design of web services
Algorithms and complexity analysis
Linux system administration, development and production environments
Cloud, container and microservices infrastructures
Software security
Development workflow automation

And a strong focus on data processing:
Databases, theory and practice
Distributed data processing
Real Time event processing
Concepts of functional programming
Data privacy and anonymization techniques
Enterprise data warehousing, Business Intelligence and ETL principles
Statistics and analytics
Machine learning

If you’re interested and would like to apply please send me your CV ASAP.

Keywords: Linux, Scala, Python, R, Java, Go, Git, CI/CD, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Airflow, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Bash, Kerberos, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, XGBoost, scikit-learn, TensorFlow.