Requirements: English
Company: Templeton & Partners - Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions
Region: Amsterdam , North Holland
Senior Data Engineer
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Hybrid 23 days onsite per week)
Duration: 3 months, with the possibility of extension
Contract: Freelance
This project supports the digital transformation initiative of one of our international clients in the customer domain. The goal is to evolve existing datasets into scalable, discoverable data products within a data mesh framework.
Youll join a cross-functional data and analytics team. The role involves both hands-on data engineering and collaboration with stakeholders across product and engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build robust data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and quality control
- Develop and enhance data products aligned with the data mesh architecture
- Ensure proper data access controls and model management
- Collaborate with data engineers, stewards, and stakeholders across locations
- Lead documentation efforts for better data discoverability and governance
- Contribute to process and tooling improvements, including code reviews and best practice development
Required Skills & Experience
- Data mesh & data product development: practical experience with schemas, data contracts, and access control
- BigQuery: advanced knowledge, including Analytics Hub for managing data access
- Communication & collaboration: strong interpersonal skills to support cross-team alignment and technical mentoring
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): especially Cloud Run, Workflows, and ideally Dataflow
- CI/CD & DataOps: experience with GitHub Actions, monitoring/observability, and infrastructure as code using Terraform
- dbt: for scalable data modeling and transformation workflows
- SQL: advanced query optimization skills
- Stakeholder management: ability to align with software engineers and product owners effectively