Freelance Data Engineer (CR/4043089) Amsterdam, Netherlands
As a Data Engineer, you'll act as a technical subject matter expert responsible for developing, optimizing, and scaling data assets. You will work within the CS Data Engineering team to build internal tools, infrastructure, and user-facing products that enable efficiency, data quality, and reliable data flows across the organization.
What You'll Be Doing
- Rapidly developing next‑generation, scalable, and high‑performance data pipelines
- Troubleshooting and resolving data issues, prioritizing by customer impact, and implementing root‑cause fixes
- End‑to‑end ownership of data quality for core data assets
- Mapping data flows across systems to improve efficiency and resilience
- Designing scalable and extensible physical data models supporting both new and existing solutions
- Building integrations across on‑premise and cloud systems
- Experimenting with new technologies to improve performance, scaling, and data quality
- Contributing to data discovery and data governance tooling supporting analytics teams
- Building monitoring solutions and handling outages when needed
What You’ll Bring
- A strong sense of ownership, accountability, and a collaborative mindset
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
- Low‑ego, open, friendly attitude — embracing diversity as a strength
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
Experience & Skills
- 4+ years building data pipelines using Hadoop, Airflow, Kafka, Spark, MySQL, AWS
- 4+ years Data Warehousing experience
- 4+ years with cloud technologies (Amazon Cloud, S3, Snowflake)
- 2+ years with data streaming
- 2+ years data modeling experience
- Data Science skills
- Intermediate knowledge of data governance (e.g., DAMA)
- Strong understanding of data quality frameworks
- Excellent communication skills in English
Details
- Start: Asap
- Duration: 9 months
- Location: Amsterdam, Hybrid