Senior Data Engineer (Investment Data)

Senior Data Engineer (Investment Data)

Project description We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Data Engineer who is capable of designing, building, and operating data pipelines and models that power analytics and applications across investment teams and Middle/Back office. The ideal candidate has financial markets familiarity (securities, prices, corporate actions, positions/holdings) and thrives in ambiguous environments—proactively shaping solutions, not waiting for tickets. You’ll own data end-to-end: from ingesting vendor and internal sources, to modeling in our lakehouse, to making data discoverable, reliable, and cost-efficient. You’ll partner closely with BAs/PMs and quants, anticipate downstream needs, and propose pragmatic architectures that balance speed, governance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements clarification and sprint planning sessions.
• Design technical solutions and implement them, inc ETL Pipelines – Build robust data pipelines in PySpark to extract, transform, using PySpark
• Optimize ETL Processes – Enhance and tune existing ETL processes for better performance, scalability, and reliability
• Writing unit and integration tests.
• Support QA teammates in the acceptance process.
• Resolving PROD incidents as a 3rd line engineer.

Skills

• Must have

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline).

• 5+ years experience in data engineering roles (flexible based on depth of capability).

• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in production environments (prerequisite).

• Strong programming experience with PySpark (must) and strong SQL (must).

• Proven experience with Declarative Pipelines / pipeline orchestration on Databricks (prerequisite).

• Strong understanding of data engineering fundamentals: ingestion patterns, transformation design, incremental processing, testing, performance tuning.

• Experience delivering production-ready datasets with appropriate operational controls (monitoring, troubleshooting, reliability patterns).

• Experience with modern Lakehouse concepts (Delta tables, optimization strategies, file skipping, metadata/statistics awareness).

• Exposure to data governance practices: cataloguing, documentation, business glossary/terms, lineage.

• Experience working in enterprise environments with CI/CD pipelines and structured release processes.

• Familiarity with vendor market data feeds (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MSCI, FactSet) or similar multi-source mastering patterns.

• Nice to have

• Strong Hands-on Expertise in Palantir Foundry. Proven experience with Foundry pipelines, ontologies, data lineage, transformations, and platform governance.

• Proven Migration Experience from Palantir / to Databricks. Demonstrated experience leading or executing platform migrations, including pipeline conversion, data model redesign, and production cutover.

• Familiarity with Dynatrace or Datadog for system observability and monitoring.

• Databricks certification, cloud certifications (Azure/AWS), or enterprise data architecture certifications.

• Other

• Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

• Seniority

• Senior

• Luxoft Benefits

• Relocation options

• Experience in an international environment

• Cross-cultural experience

• Feedback culture

• Regular appraisals

• Annual holiday - 20 or 26 days. The duration of the leave depends on the overall seniority

• Occasional leave - 1 or 2 days/ depending on the circumstances

• Child care leave - 2 days or 16 hours per year

• Absence due to force majeure - 2 days or 16 hours per year

• Maternity Leave - 20 weeks

• Parental Leave - 41 weeks

• Paternity Leave - 14 days

• Expert-led tech courses covering basic to advanced topics

• Internal instructor-led soft skills courses

• Comprehensive in-house self-learning resources for both soft and hard skills

• Access to external self-learning libraries like ProQuest eBook and Udemy for Business

• Cloud Programs: MS Cloud Academy, AWS Partner Academy, Google Cloud Academy

• Custom Learning Programs: upskilling, reskilling, technical mentorship

• Leadership Programs for Managers

• Multisport card

• Possibility to order Multisport card at the corporate rate for family members

• LuxGood Program: wellbeing seminars, contests, relaxation sessions, yoga sessions, etc.

• One Team Program: Buddy for each New Joiner; seminars, meeting and workplace space to support integration with local community and culture; “Hire me” workshops for partners

• Preferential banking offer

• Preferential car leasing offer

• Cafeteria program discounts for shops, cinema tickets, holiday offers

• Luxoft Social Benefit Fund: sport and recreation benefits, the possibility to receive financial support

• Private Healthcare Insurance with unlimited access to specialists

• Full dental support

• Travel Insurance

• Possibility to add private healthcare coverage for family members at the corporate rate

• Life insurance at the corporate rate for employees and family members, including payment of the basic package for the employee by the employer

• Reimbursement for corrective glasses

• Many fun social activities organized by the Luxoft team offline in your city

• Online entertainment events for whole company and local team events

• A workplace where you’re treated with respect within a multicultural team

• Rotation between projects and accounts

• New career opportunities

• The acquisition of rights to the above benefits depends on the form of cooperation. Benefits apply to those employed under a contract of employment.

• Please note that relocation is not available for all open positions. At Luxoft Poland it is possible to work remotely only from the territory of Poland.