Senior Data Engineer for Digital Analytics & Marketing Science

Saxo is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate the data foundation for marketing analytics, personalization, experimentation, and data science to drive top-funnel growth. You will join the Digital Analytics & Marketing Science team, partnering with analysts, data scientists, and the Data Platform team. The role involves owning end-to-end data products, building batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks/Spark with Delta Lake, designing optimized data models, implementing robust data quality, orchestrating workflows, and ensuring data security and observability.

Must Have

• Own end-to-end data products: from ingestion to production ops with clear SLAs/SLOs.
• Build batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks/Spark with Delta Lake.
• Design optimized data models for analytics/ML; manage schema evolution and versioning.
• Implement robust data quality and contracts; automate tests, validation, backfills and anomaly detection.
• Orchestrate workflows with Databricks Workflows/Airflow; optimize for reliability, performance and cost.
• Expose data via SQL, files and APIs; build lightweight data services when needed.
• Ensure observability (logging, metrics, lineage, alerts) and maintain documentation/runbooks.
• Secure data by design: PII handling, encryption, RBAC/ABAC, secrets (Key Vault), Unity Catalog and governance.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders; maintain Git repos, clean code, reviews and CI/CD.
• Proven experience delivering production-grade data platforms/pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL; large-scale data wrangling and Spark/Databricks performance tuning.
• Experience with batch and streaming patterns (Structured Streaming, CDC, idempotent/exactly-once).
• Solid software engineering: testing, code reviews, version control, CI/CD.
• Governance, security and privacy awareness in regulated environments; hands-on PII/access controls.
• Clear communication in English; comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.
• Master’s in CS/IT or similar (or equivalent experience).

Good to Have

• dbt or Delta Live Tables experience.
• Kubernetes-based services experience.
• Exposure to ML/AI and feature pipelines.
• Adobe Experience Cloud, experimentation/personalization tools.
• Power BI experience.

Perks & Benefits

• Become part of a purpose-driven organization.
• Opportunity to make a true impact.
• Investment in your development and a robust career from day one.
• Join 2,500 ambitious colleagues across 15 countries in an international organization.
• Work in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Encouragement of an open feedback culture and supportive team environments.
• Dynamic learning journey and immense career opportunities.

Saxo is becoming even more data-driven. We’re seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate the data foundation for marketing analytics, personalization, experimentation and data science that drive top-funnel growth.

About the team

You’ll join Digital Analytics & Marketing Science, partnering with analysts, data scientists, Enterprise Architecture and the Data Platform to deliver secure, reliable datasets and services for data-driven marketing and business outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Own end-to-end data products: from ingestion to production ops with clear SLAs/SLOs
• Build batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks/Spark with Delta Lake (incl. CDC, enrichment, features/model scoring)
• Design optimized data models for analytics/ML; manage schema evolution and versioning
• Implement robust data quality and contracts; automate tests, validation, backfills and anomaly detection
• Orchestrate workflows with Databricks Workflows/Airflow; optimize for reliability, performance and cost
• Expose data via SQL, files and APIs; build lightweight data services when needed
• Ensure observability (logging, metrics, lineage, alerts) and maintain documentation/runbooks
• Secure data by design: PII handling, encryption, RBAC/ABAC, secrets (Key Vault), Unity Catalog and governance
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders; maintain Git repos, clean code, reviews and CI/CD

Our stack (you don’t need every item)

• Python (incl. PySpark), SQL; Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog on Azure
• Kafka/Event Hubs for streaming; Databricks Workflows/Airflow for orchestration
• GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps CI/CD; Terraform/Bicep; containers/Kubernetes (for data services)
• Data quality/observability tools (e.g., Great Expectations); BI (Power BI) and martech exposure are a plus

What you bring

• Proven experience delivering production-grade data platforms/pipelines
• Strong Python and SQL; large-scale data wrangling and Spark/Databricks performance tuning
• Experience with batch and streaming patterns (Structured Streaming, CDC, idempotent/exactly-once)
• Solid software engineering: testing, code reviews, version control, CI/CD
• Governance, security and privacy awareness in regulated environments; hands-on PII/access controls
• Clear communication in English; comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams
• Master’s in CS/IT or similar (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

• dbt or Delta Live Tables; Kubernetes-based services; exposure to ML/AI and feature pipelines
• Adobe Experience Cloud, experimentation/personalization tools; Power BI

Your profile

Methodical, self-driven and curious. You value simplicity, automation and clean, well-tested code, and you take ownership from design through operations.

We get curious people invested in the world

When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on. You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 15 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long-term success. We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations. When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense. At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!

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