Lead Engineer & Data Platform

Description

### **Descripción** What if your next challenge meant leading the hybrid data platform of an internationally leading investment management firm, with a global presence and world\-class teams? At Q\-tech, we're hiring a **Lead Engineer \& Data Platform** to join a data infrastructure team that provides the secure, scalable and trustworthy foundation for storing, processing and distributing critical enterprise data, across cloud and on\-premises environments. This isn't just a technical role: it's a leadership position with direct impact on architecture, engineering standards and the future of the platform. **Location: Madrid** **Your day\-to\-day would include:** * Owning the end\-to\-end architecture and evolution of the enterprise data platform across hybrid environments. * Setting the technical direction: roadmap, standards and reusable patterns for orchestration, scheduling and data processing. * Leading architectural decisions, proofs of concept and adoption plans focused on scalability, security and cost. * Establishing reliability, observability and operational standards (monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, SLOs). * Driving automation through infrastructure as code, CI/CD and automated testing. * Staying hands\-on: design and code reviews, mentoring, and championing a culture of engineering excellence. **What we're looking for:** * 12\+ years of experience in data/platform engineering, designing and operating enterprise\-scale data platforms. * Deep, hands\-on Snowflake expertise (architecture, ingestion, transformation, workload management, cost, governance). * Production experience with Apache Airflow and Apache Kafka / event\-driven architectures. * Proven ability to integrate batch and streaming pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka). * Advanced Python and SQL; Java experience for Kafka\-based services/connectors is a plus. * Terraform, Git, CI/CD; OpenShift or Kubernetes experience is a plus. * Experience in regulated environments: security, data quality, access management and compliance. * Proven technical leadership: team direction, mentoring and communication with technical and business stakeholders. * **Fluent English, written and spoken.** If you're passionate about building robust data platforms, leading with strong technical judgment, and making an impact in a global financial environment, we'd love to talk to you. **\#DataEngineering \#Snowflake \#ApacheAirflow \#ApacheKafka \#DataPlatform \#TechLeadership \#TechJobs \#Hiring \#Qtech** \- Madrid Híbrido **Persona de contacto:** agrisolia@q\-techrec.com 617 104 165