Senior Data Engineer

We are searching for aData Engineer to keep our data foundation strong and improve our raw data flows. You willbe responsible for loading and storing alldatathe company producesand thatarethe basis of our success.

Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Flexibility to work hybrid.

We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it.

Every minute
100students from around the world trust our platforms(e.g., )to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts.

With forty different nationalities among the 200+ people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people.

Eagerto learn and serious about fun. Want to know more?

We accumulate loads andloadsof data. We wanttomake informed choices throughout the business. Thus, we need you tokeep the data flowing andto unlockit for other data and business functions. The data needs to be complete,correctandup to date.

Wewantyou to createandmaintainhigh-quality datapipelinesandto control our datalife cycle.

Many decisions and revenue streams depend onaccuratedata.

Data is vitalinformationto us thatneeds to be available anytimeand for anyone who might need it.

Your future team is the place in the company where all data comes together. From online tracking, marketing, CRM, or other sources. You are at the basis of the power to combine all this information to makethe right choices.

You will need to talk to software engineers, todata analysts,and toother business functions.

Thus, strong communication skills are definitely an advantage for applying and for working at Studyportals.

By taking this on, you will be helping everyone at

Studyportals to make informed data-driven decisions based on high-quality data.

And with that you will help thousands of students everywhere.

At Studyportals, the Big Data & Business Intelligence Teamis responsible for delivering quality data for the rest of the company.

You will be joining an existing team of four members – aBig Data Team Leadreporting  to the CTO,twoData Analytics Engineers ,anda

BI Analyst.

All very smart people!

Big Data is part of the Product Engineering department that isabout
40 in size.

Asthe Data Engineer you  willbe at thestrong foundation of the data-value pyramid.

You will make sure all our data isalways complete andup to dateso that your colleagues can processthemanddistill insights from them. At theendthis will enable data-informed decisions across the business.

• You design,buildand take ownership of robustand scalable
  
  ETL pipelines with data qualityin mind.
  
  Youmanage the data with AWS systems like
  
  EMR,Redshift, zero-ETL, and Glue
• Youoperateand continuously improve our modern data platform. Youmaintainand upgrade tools like Airflow,dbt,Redshift and Grafana.
• You ensure reliability and high data quality in production. You keep an eye on pipeline health and cloud services, assess incidents confidently.
• You actively shape our cloud infrastructure and architecture. You contribute to Infrastructure-as-Codeand confidently challenge architectural decisionsforsustainable solutions.
• Youoptimizeperformance and cost efficiency across our datastackandproactively think about scalability as our data and business grow.
• You empower colleagues with great data. You support stakeholders,provide trusted secondopinionsto the whole team, and ensure our data assets are secureanddocumented.

• 4or moreyears of hands-on Data Engineering experience in production cloud environments
• Strong Python(PySpark) and SQL skills with a focus on clean, maintainable code
• Experience with modern data stack tools such as Airflow,Fivetran,dbt,andAWS
• Proven track record building andoperatingrobust, scalable ETL pipelines
• Strong understanding of data modeling, incrementalloadingand data quality practices
• Having experience with streaming processing is a plus
• Experienceoptimizingwarehouse performance and managing cloud costs
  
  Analytical mindset with a focus on root-cause thinking and sustainable solutions
• Ownership mentality with the confidence to challenge architectural decisions
• I'mlooking for an excellent communicator. Someone with a positive and proactive mindset (love it, change it, or leave it). You are dedicated and you never give up
• Fluent in English, we are a strongly international team with 40+ nationalities in-house!

• Competitive salary includinga bonusand pension.
• 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g., be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
• Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
• Flexibility to workremotely3days per week, including aremoteworking allowance.
• Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year.
• An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
• Anice andfun office in the heart of…