As a Data Platform Engineer at Shalion, you will own the foundations the rest of the data organization depends on every day: our Snowflake platform, our AWS lakehouse built on Iceberg tables, our Airflow orchestration layer, and the Terraform code that provisions all of it.
Your Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our Snowflake platform: warehouses, databases, storage integrations, stages, external tables, shares and network policies.
- Design and maintain our access model: role hierarchies, grants and least-privilege permissions for people, service users and external partners.
- Manage the platform as code with Terraform, reviewed in pull requests and deployed through GitHub Actions.
- Operate our AWS lakehouse: ingestion of parquet files and Iceberg tables from S3, plus the IAM plumbing that connects AWS and Snowflake safely.
- Orchestrate and harden pipelines in Apache Airflow, and drive reliability and cost efficiency with Synq and SELECT.dev.
- Apply security and governance best practices: authentication, secret management, naming conventions and clear data ownership.
Your profile should include the following:
- 3+ years of experience in data platform, data engineering, or platform/infrastructure roles in production.
- Hands-on Snowflake or similar experience as a platform, not only as a SQL engine: you know what storage integrations, stages, shares, warehouses and the RBAC model are and when to use each.
- Solid experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC.
- Experience with Apache Airflow or a comparable orchestrator, including operating it and not only writing DAGs.
- Experience with AWS (S3, IAM) and working knowledge of what Iceberg tables are and how they fit into a lakehouse.
- Daily usage of GitHub for version control and CI/CD, and a security-first mindset.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Languages: Fluent in Spanish and English B1 or higher.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Hands-on experience with Iceberg tables on AWS (Glue Catalog, Lake Formation, S3 Tables, Athena or Snowflake Iceberg).
- Experience with data observability or Snowflake cost tooling such as Synq, Monte Carlo or SELECT.dev.
- Experience with dbt, Airbyte, or containerized workloads (Docker).
- Experience using AI coding assistants to increase your leverage, with good judgment when reviewing generated code.
- Proven experience designing roles and permissions, and a genuine interest in data governance.
- Experience with SQL and Python
Soft Skills We Value
- Ownership – You treat the platform as yours, including the boring parts that keep it running.
- Adaptability – Ability to find solutions in uncertain situations.
- Quality-Oriented – Awareness of data quality, security and the importance of testing.
- Collaboration – Experience working in Agile environments and supporting other teams as internal customers.
What We Offer
- An international team – Work with colleagues from 10+ nationalities.
- A dynamic and innovative environment – Be part of a high-performing team.
- Hybrid work model – 3 days in-office, 2 days remote.
- Impactful work – Contribute to a challenging and innovative project.
- Flexible benefits – Allocate part of your gross salary (pre-tax) to meal vouchers, transport allowance, and private healthcare at a preferential rate.
- Office perks – Fresh fruit and specialty coffee daily.
- Contract – Permanent
- Salary range – from 45,000€ to 60,000€ gross/yearly, according to experience and seniority.
- Great location – Office in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district.
Shalion Data Services Limited is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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