We're hiring: Lead Data Engineer — Sunrise Programme (EDAM Data Mesh)

📍 EU & UK candidates only (Remote) · 🕘 BST · 💼 B2B contract · 🗣 English B1+ 💰 5000-5500$

Vallettasoftware - custom mobile/web software developer in the US and Europe. Our teams implement IT projects of varying complexity, including website and mobile app development, enterprise systems, and solutions based on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

We are proud to be named as one of the Top 10 Software Development Companies in Q2 2026 by 50Pros|Discover top agencies.

Our thorough approach to every project and deep understanding of Client's needs allow us to manage the outstanding quality.

About the Role

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to own the technical direction of data engineering on the EDAM enterprise data & analytics mesh platform.

What You Will Do

Lead design and delivery of scalable data engineering solutions
Own architecture, patterns, and standards across EDAM
Build ingestion pipelines from Sapiens, IRIS, and other enterprise sources
Develop ETL/ELT with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric
Implement medallion architecture, reusable frameworks, curated datasets
Own data quality, validation, reconciliation, monitoring
Drive CI/CD and DevOps with Azure DevOps
Lead design sessions, code reviews, and production support
Mentor Data Engineers and establish best practices
Leverage AI-assisted / agentic AI tooling

What We Are Looking For

Must-Have

6+ years in Data Engineering
Enterprise-scale pipelines & platforms
Azure Databricks + Spark, ADF, Microsoft Fabric, ADLS
Strong SQL + ETL/ELT
Medallion architecture + reusable frameworks
Data quality, governance, lineage, security
CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
Technical leadership: own direction, define standards, mentor engineers

Nice-to-have

Fabric Data Factory / Lakehouse
Sapiens or similar core enterprise systems
Insurance / FS / regulated + regulatory reporting
Data Mesh / enterprise data platform
AI-assisted / agentic AI
Power BI / semantic modelling

Why Join

Work on a long-term product with real business impact.
International, distributed team with a collaborative culture.
Opportunity to take ownership of a mature application.
Flexible working conditions and remote work.

Lead Data Engineer - Sunrise Programme (EDAM Data Mesh)

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