Schuberg Philis is a mission-critical engineering company committed to providing tailor-made and reliable IT services. We work on complex systems, critical interfaces, and business critical platforms for and with our customers. We understand business context and customer requirements, design systems and platforms and automate them as much as possible.
As we continue to grow our data capabilities, we are seeking a highly experienced Data Engineer with strong platform engineering skills to join one of our biggest dedicated ‘Customer Teams’. The ideal candidate will have strong technical abilities in data engineering in general, and extensive hands-on experience with AWS stack in particular. You will play a crucial strategic role alongside our team in ensuring our data stack is future-proof and aligns with current best practices.
Key responsibilities
- Data Architecture Evolution: Lead the enhancement and modernization of our data infrastructure, leveraging AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, and Redshift to ensure scalability and performance.
- Data Workflow Management: Design and optimize orchestration processes and tools to ensure efficient data workflows with technologies like AWS Step Functions, Glue, and Apache Airflow is advantageous.
- Data Warehousing Oversight: Oversee and optimize data warehousing processes within Redshift, with a strong understanding of both managed and serverless technologies to drive effective solutions towards our serverless architecture.
- Data Quality Assurance: Establish and maintain rigorous standards for data quality, ensuring data integrity and consistency as a foundational aspect of our operations.
- Infrastructure Automation: Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform, embracing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices for scalable and efficient deployments.
- Governance and Compliance: Collaborate with the team to uphold governance and compliance standards, ensuring all data-related processes meet regulatory and organizational requirements.
- Technical Collaboration and Leadership: Contribute to steering technical decisions and strategies. Bring a strong technical perspective to drive innovation, problem-solving, and effective project execution.
- Customer Engagement: Maintain effective communication and collaboration with the customer, translating complex technical requirements into actionable solutions and ensuring alignment across teams.
What are we looking for?
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS data stack (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift) and overall familiarity with AWS services.
- Strong knowledge of orchestration tools, preferably AWS Step Functions and Apache Airflow.
- Experience with data modeling, ETL pipelines, and data warehousing.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g Terraform)
- Deep understanding of serverless computing and managing serverless architectures.
- Familiarity with data quality tools and practices.
- Programming skills and coding standards, especially in Python and SQL (experience with DBT is an advantage).
- Project management experience, with the ability to prioritize tasks and projects effectively.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
What can you expect?
At Schuberg Philis, you’ll join a community of engineers with an awesome combination of exceptionally high security standards, an infatuation with automation, and the power to make a positive, sustainable impact on customers’ business. Due to the nature of our customer engagements, there is no pressure on (billable) hours, but we focus on quality and impact – or how we like to call it “freedom & responsibility”. You know best how to deliver the most value.
You’ll also be embedded in a company committed to helping colleagues grow as people and professionals through training, opportunities for knowledge-sharing, and good old-fashioned fun.
Our offices are high quality workspaces, and we go way beyond what is expected. We have productive equipment, good food and drinks, team outings, family days, labs to experiment with innovative technologies, etc. We’re very active in the AWS community, attending and organizing meetups and conferences, and organizing internal knowledge sharing events.
Our indefinite contracts are designed to take care of you both on the job and off. For more information about our perks, check out our What we offer page.
Who are we?
Schuberg Philis is a mission-critical IT company providing solutions that deliver 100% uptime and impact in all operations at the heart of business. Customers include organizations whose activities power the world’s most crucial industries. Established in 2000 in the Netherlands, the company employs 400 colleagues who work in self-steering teams with offices in Schiphol-Rijk and Rotterdam.
Everyone we work with and consider working with has a right to equal treatment. The hiring and appraisal process at Schuberg Philis is designed to be thorough and equitable, implementing fair payment, benefits, and opportunities across all demographics.
It is our desire to be a company that brings together multiple nationalities, cultures, religions, genders, abilities, and talents within and across our teams. We welcome colleagues from diverse backgrounds to join Schuberg Philis and actively support diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.
