# Data Engineer

**Company**: GoCardless
**Location**: Riga, Latvia
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €49,600 - €74,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Description

You'll join GoCardless, a global leader in bank payments, as a Data Engineer. You'll work in the Data and Business Systems group, collaborating with technical and non-technical people across the company.

### Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and iterate data models and schemas, and build ETL/ELT pipelines to process large volumes of data efficiently and reliably.

- Implement and maintain scalable data architectures and pipeline orchestration using cloud technologies.

- Ensure data quality and governance by implementing data quality checks, monitoring, and validation processes.

- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, AI/ML engineers, analysts, and business teams to understand requirements and deliver data solutions.

- Stay current with emerging data technologies and best practices, proposing and implementing improvements to data infrastructure and processes.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, share knowledge with team members, and contribute to engineering best practices.

### Requirements

- Strong proficiency in SQL, with experience in relational and/or NoSQL databases.

- Experience designing and maintaining data models and schema design for analytics or product use cases.

- Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and ingesting data from third-party or internal sources.

- Experience with cloud data platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, CloudSQL, Dataflow, Pub/Sub) or equivalent AWS/Azure services.

- Proficiency in Python or another programming language commonly used in data engineering.

- Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices.

- Knowledge of data governance, security best practices, and data privacy regulations.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

### Nice to Have

- Experience in the fintech or payments industry.

- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

- Experience designing or configuring data orchestration platforms and workflow management systems.

- Familiarity with data streaming technologies and real-time data processing.

- Knowledge of machine learning pipelines and supporting ML workflows.

- Experience with data visualization tools and business intelligence platforms.

### Benefits

- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover

- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period

- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle

- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure

- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget

- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Google Cloud Platform
- ETL/ELT pipelines
- data governance
- version control (Git)
- CI/CD practices

### Nice to have
- Experience in the fintech or payments industry
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience designing or configuring data orchestration platforms and workflow management systems
- Familiarity with data streaming technologies and real-time data processing
- Knowledge of machine learning pipelines and supporting ML workflows
- Experience with data visualization tools and business intelligence platforms

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