Senior Data Engineer

Who we are

We are remote first software as a service (SaaS) company, bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry. We enhance the way shipping professionals work by creating technology for the maritime industry and bringing it to market.

With over 85% of the world’s trade transported by sea, we have a huge opportunity to transform existing manual, offline and disparate processes into a tech-enabled and data-rich experience enabling better decision-making and fewer costly and time-consuming mistakes. Our premier platform, Sea/, is the world’s first digital shipping platform that provides cloud-based applications focused on the pre-fixture and at-fixture space. These connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows.

To understand more about us, please visit https://www.sea.live/

The Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join us in what is an exciting time for our business. Responsibilities will include:

• Work with data engineers & analysts to problem solve, build & deliver data products from ideation to production.
• Lead and own the full lifecycle of data engineering deliverables.
• Deliver complex data flows to process external data sources to provide the company with a competitive edge.
• Act as a consultant to the business to meet their needs.
• Maintain existing data solutions to ensure reliability and high data quality to maximise the utility of data within the business.
• Innovate by recommending opportunities to improve data engineering tooling & process.
• Mentor and provide guidance to more junior colleagues.
• Lead workshops to knowledge share and upskill colleagues in both technical and business domains.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Proven experience working in Data Engineering.
• Proven experience working with Azure & Databricks Data Platform technology stacks, including:

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)

Azure SQL (PaaS)

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Azure Databricks (incl. Python coding)

Azure Functions

• Proven experience of using data modelling techniques relevant in Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence contexts (such as Kimball and Data Vault)
• Proven experience with understanding business requirements and translating these into technical deliverables.
• Ability to create a strong relationship with stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work to tight delivery timescales and to take on new information working with a remote team.
• Proven experience developing optimal and reliable ETL processes to ingest & process data from a wide variety of data sources (both structured and unstructured), implementing them both for batch and real-time scenarios in cloud environments.
• Proven experience of maintaining & supporting existing data solutions in Production environments, identifying improvement opportunities, investigating and resolving incidents, and monitoring to ensure SLAs are met

Desirable

• Experience working with the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI, SSAS (Tabular), SSIS and SSRS
• Experience working with DevOps & CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of working as part of Agile (Scrum or Kanban) delivery teams
• Knowledge of PowerShell Scripting

What you can expect

Despite our dynamic growth, we managed to maintain a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of a tightly knit team that can implement complex projects comprehensively and effectively. Each of us knows what is expected from us and has adequate space and freedom of action.

The actual work is important, but it’s also essential for us at Sea that we all stay happy, relaxed and motivated. That’s why we provide a wide range of benefits to all our employees:

• Private medical care (Luxmed)
• Voluntary group life insurance
• MyBenefit or Multisport card
• Language courses (English and German)
• Mentoring program and numerous internal pieces of training
• Employee referral program
• Paid days off from services (B2B)
• A paid day off to care for your health - “Dzień na U”
• Integration events, joint company trips, birthday celebrations and many other

What we offer

• Salary: DOE 23 000 - 27 000 PLN/month (B2B) or UoP
• Flexible working hours
• You choose how you work - from our office in Poznań or remotely from home, or like most of us, work hybrid
• Strong focus on growth, interesting projects & people who enjoy working with each other!