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From optimizing production data pipelines and advancing our data quality capabilities to contributing to new data lake solutions, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how data is processed, managed, and made available across Zocks.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role with strong ownership. You'll design and implement technical solutions, contribute to architectural decisions, and work closely with other engineering teams to build reliable, scalable data systems.\nJob Description\nAs a Senior Data Engineer at Zocks, you'll take ownership of developing, maintaining, and improving our data infrastructure, balancing product requirements with reliability, performance, and scalability.\nYou'll work with technologies including ClickHouse, Dagster, Airbyte, Apache Superset, AWS, and Python, solving engineering challenges across our data ecosystem.\nWorking closely with our Head of Data, Data Analysts, Platform Engineers, and Software Engineers building enterprise solutions, you'll translate data requirements into robust technical solutions.\nWe're looking for someone who combines strong hands-on engineering skills with a proactive mindset, enjoys solving complex technical problems, and can independently deliver solutions from initial design through production.\nWhat You'll Own\nBuild and evolve our data infrastructure\nDesign, develop, and maintain production data pipelines, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.\nImplement new data pipelines, integrations, and data processing capabilities to support our product.\nContribute to the design and implementation of new data lake solutions.\nOptimize data processing, storage, and orchestration to support growing data volumes and complex use cases.\nParticipate in architectural discussions, evaluate technical approaches, and propose improvements to existing solutions.\nBuild reliable, production-grade data systems\nDevelop and enhance automated data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.\nApply engineering best practices for data pipeline testing, observability, documentation, and reliability.\nIdentify, troubleshoot, and resolve data quality issues, pipeline failures, and performance bottlenecks.\nImprove data consistency, completeness, and availability across systems.\nTake end-to-end ownership of assigned data engineering solutions, from implementation to production operation.\nCollaborate across Data and Engineering\nWork closely with the Head of Data and Data Analysts to understand data requirements and deliver reliable, accessible data for analytics and reporting.\nCollaborate with Platform Engineering and DevOps on cloud infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and operational reliability.\nPartner with Software Engineering teams to integrate new data sources and support enterprise product requirements.\nContribute to technical discussions, share knowledge, and help identify opportunities to improve our data engineering practices.\nProactively suggest solutions, evaluate technical trade-offs, and collaborate with other engineers on implementation decisions.\nRequired Skills and Qualifications\n5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering or closely related software engineering disciplines, including experience working with production data systems.\nStrong Python and SQL skills, with experience designing, developing, and maintaining reliable data pipelines.\nSolid understanding of ETL/ELT, data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and modern data architectures.\nHands-on experience with cloud-based data infrastructure, preferably AWS.\nExperience working with data warehousing, data storage, and data processing technologies.\nExperience with data quality, monitoring, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.\nAbility to independently design and implement technical solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and solve complex engineering problems.\nExperience collaborating with Data, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering teams.\nStrong problem-solving skills, a proactive mindset, and a sense of ownership.\nExcellent English communication skills; 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