Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Annual gross salary range: Min. 45,000€ - Max. 75,000€, depending on experience. (Our salary bands include a team performance semestral bonus) Volkswagen Group Services is excited to present a fantastic opportunity to join our Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain. As part of the global Software Development Centre network in the Volkswagen Group, we constantly seek talented individuals ready to bring their unique skills to our projects. Our start-up environment is collaborative, innovative, and open to new ideas. We strive to cultivate a work culture that encourages individual growth, team empowerment, and project excellence. We value respect, teamwork, and the common purpose that binds us as a group. If you're ready to thrive in a dynamic start-up environment and be part of our family, supported by one of the largest companies in the world, we invite you to read further.

About the Team and the Hub: Our culture is centered around fostering individual growth and team empowerment within a flexible and supportive environment. We prioritize respect, teamwork, and inclusivity, recognizing and valuing the unique contributions of each member. We embrace a work-life balance philosophy and encourage continuous personal and professional development.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Building Data Pipelines Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest data from external systems, transform it, and load it into noSQL databases. Define and evolve transformation logic to ensure data quality, consistency, and schema alignment across heterogeneous source systems. Analyze and understand external system interfaces to inform integration design and anticipate upstream changes.
• Data Modeling and Design Design and maintain document-oriented data models, ensuring they support current and future business requirements. Create and maintain data model visualizations to support cross-team alignment and architectural documentation.
• Ensuring Data Quality and Reliability Implement validation, monitoring, and alerting across the pipeline to ensure data integrity and early detection of failures. Establish and enforce data governance practices, including handling of sensitive data in line with compliance requirements. Design and maintain strategies for anonymizing production data and synthesizing test data to enable safe, realistic testing environments.
• Driving Technical Quality Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; review peers' contributions and uphold engineering standards across the team. Optimize pipeline performance for large-scale data processing, balancing throughput, latency, and cost.
• Collaborating within the ART Work closely with product management and engineering teams to translate business requirements into data pipeline solutions. Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making within the Agile teams. Mentor junior team members and help improve development workflows and practices.

Requirements: Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or equivalent experience. 5+ years' experience in data engineering, with a focus on streaming and batch data pipelines. Strong proficiency in Python and/or Kotlin/Java. Hands-on experience with streaming (e.g. Kafka) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB or DocumentDB). Experience with AWS cloud services - including Lambda, GlueJobs, Eventbridge, S3 and CDK. Solid understanding of data modeling for document-oriented databases. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native environment. Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments is a plus. Strong communicator, comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Fluent English; Spanish and/or German proficiency is a plus.

What we offer: Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed. Access to professional development tools and free language courses. Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs. A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts.