Senior Data Engineer

About the role

Avenga is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and backend applications. You will work with cloud‑native services, infrastructure‑as‑code tools, and modern CI/CD practices to support data‑driven solutions across the business.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in architecture discussions, performance tuning, and cost optimisation.
• Design and implement data pipelines and ETL/ELT jobs using Python and SQL.
• Build and maintain data infrastructure (storage, compute, orchestration) with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Develop and deploy services on AWS, Azure or GCP, leveraging S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB or equivalents.
• Apply best practices for testing, observability, data governance and CI/CD.

Required profile

• At least 5 years of production‑grade experience as a Data Engineer.
• Strong Python programming skills and solid SQL knowledge.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and IaC tools.
• Proficiency in containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Excellent English communication and technical documentation abilities.

Required skills

• Python, SQL
• AWS (S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB)
• Terraform (or CloudFormation)
• Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
• GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines
• Airflow, Step Functions
• MLFlow, Feature Stores
• FastAPI, Flask