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Principal Data Engineer (Data Architect)

Hybrid Łódź, Poland

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 22500 – 34500 PLN gross

What will you do?

Join a data transformation initiative focused on designing and delivering modern data solutions on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead architectural decisions, build scalable data processing frameworks, optimize data platforms, and work closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to drive data quality, analytics, and reporting capabilities.

Your tasks

  • Develop and optimize ETL pipelines
  • Develop and optimize BigQuery datasets
  • Design and implement data processing logic and reusable templates
  • Closely collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering teams
  • Review and refine requirements and translate them into architectural decisions
  • Drive data architecture standards and best practices
  • Support data quality, metadata management, analytics, and reporting initiatives

Your skills

  • At least 8 years of commercial experience as a Data Lead or Data Architect
  • Strong experience with the GCP Data Engineering stack is a must
  • Strong SQL and Python skills
  • Very good knowledge of BigQuery
  • Experience in data architecture
  • Experience in data quality management
  • Experience in metadata management
  • Experience in analytics and reporting solutions
  • Experience collaborating with business stakeholders and technical teams

Nice to have

  • Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Qlik, or Apache Superset
  • Experience with migration projects
  • Experience working with legacy databases

We offer

  • Hybrid work in one of our locations: Lodz, Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw (2 office days per week)
  • Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Company car
  • Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
  • Online training and certifications
  • Access to e-learning platform
  • Work From Anywhere (up to 140 days/year abroad)
  • Social events

Source: the employer's careers page. Last checked 2026-10-15. Posted 2026-10-14.

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