Databricks Platform Engineer (Barcelona, ES)

Zurich Insurance
Barcelona
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5-8 yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Continuous improvement"]

Own and evolve the Databricks platform powering the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Design and maintain batch, streaming, API, and CDC ingestion frameworks, build Delta Live Tables pipelines, and administer Delta Lake environments with strong governance. Implement orchestration with Databricks Workflows, CI/CD with Git-based practices and Asset Bundles, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS, including monitoring and access controls.

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Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance
5 days ago

Databricks Platform Engineer (Barcelona, ES)

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Job Summary

Own and evolve the Databricks platform powering the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Design and maintain batch, streaming, API, and CDC ingestion frameworks, build Delta Live Tables pipelines, and administer Delta Lake environments with strong governance. Implement orchestration with Databricks Workflows, CI/CD with Git-based practices and Asset Bundles, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS, including monitoring and access controls.
Location: Barcelona
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and evolve the Databricks platform for the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
  • •Design, build, and maintain data ingestion frameworks for batch, streaming, API, and CDC integration patterns across source systems.
  • •Develop and manage Delta Live Tables pipelines with data quality controls, expectations, schema enforcement, and CDC processes.
  • •Administer and optimize Delta Lake environments (performance tuning, schema evolution, time travel, VACUUM, OPTIMIZE) and implement Unity Catalog governance (access controls, lineage, classification, namespaces).
  • •Implement platform orchestration and delivery via Databricks Workflows and Git-based CI/CD with Asset Bundles; collaborate on AWS IaC, authentication/authorization, monitoring, and security controls (e.g., PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, row/column-level security).
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceHome OfficeMeal AllowancePensionEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Cloud Data Architecture.
  • •Minimum 3 years owning and managing Databricks platforms in enterprise environments.
  • •Strong expertise in Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Workflows, and Asset Bundles.
  • •Proven experience designing and supporting batch, streaming, API, and CDC data ingestion frameworks.
  • •Advanced proficiency in PySpark, Python, and Databricks SQL, plus strong AWS experience and DevOps practices (CI/CD, IaC).
Experience:5-8 yearsData engineeringData platform engineeringCloud data architectureEnterprise data platformsFinancial services
Skills:CollaborationContinuous improvement
Certifications:Databricks certificationsAWS certifications
Languages:EnglishGermanSpanish
Tech Stack:DatabricksUnity CatalogDelta LakeDelta Live TablesDLTDatabricks WorkflowsDatabricks Asset BundlesPySparkPythonDatabricks SQLGitCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeAWS CloudFormationAWS CDKAWS IAMAWS S3CloudWatchGrafanaPrivateLink

Company Brief

Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance Group is a global insurance company offering a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services to individuals, small businesses and large corporations across multiple markets worldwide.
Industry: Insurance
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: 1872
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