Senior Data Engineer

Role: Senior Data Engineer Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Type: Contract Long- Term Responsible Leads design of a successful highly distributed, large-scale platform that has a major impact on the internal and external users Serves as a back-end tech lead on large scale projects Hands-on development of proof of concepts and evaluation of new technologies Implement technical strategic decisions in cross functional teams Works closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, continually improve highly scalable applications and services Provides technical guidance to other team members Evangelizes design patterns on the company level Maintains a current understanding of industry and technology trends Communicates and enforces coding standards Provide on-call support as needed. Skills - Experience and understanding about how to develop and operate strategic systems to ensure scalability and high availability Proven hands-on experience in designing, building, improving and operating high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in fast growing environment Expertise with and passion for engineer productivity workflow and tools (CI/CD, language stack support, software development lifecycle, testing strategies). Experience with Kubernetes and AWS. Experience with service oriented architecture (SOA) Extensive experience with software development processes Ability to design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code Eager to work in multiple programming languages and frameworks and constantly striving to raise technical excellence Ability to convince, provide work direction and leadership to colleagues who do not directly report to this role Experience mentoring and growing (senior) developers, not through reporting lines, but through thorough and convincing communication is preferred Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence and drive decisions Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer