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Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Budapest

Hiflylabs is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to act as technical lead on cloud data solutions, mainly lakehouse architectures, leading and mentoring 3-6 person project teams while also contributing to pre-sales.

Responsibilities

  • Understanding and aligning with business needs, identifying related data requirements
  • Participating in technical pre-sales activities, including effort estimation and proposal creation
  • Architecting and planning robust data models and modern data platforms
  • Acting as the senior technical lead for the development of cloud data solutions, with a focus on lakehouse architectures
  • Planning and leading testing activities
  • Leading and mentoring project teams (3-6 members)

Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks/Snowflake/Azure/AWS-based data platforms
  • Proficiency in assessing business logic, proposal submission, and time estimation
  • 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership or team lead role, guiding data warehouse/lakehouse migration or development projects
  • Project experience from a consultancy background
  • Customer-oriented approach
  • Strong communication skills and proactivity
  • Professional working proficiency in both English and Hungarian (written and spoken)
  • Problem-solving skills, creativity

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with legacy on-premise platforms (Oracle, MSSQL)
  • Experience in international projects

Soft skills

Customer-oriented approachStrong communication and proactivityProblem-solving skills, creativityTeam leadership and mentoring ability

What we offer

  • Diverse projects - something new in each assignment, technical or business side
  • Cutting edge technology - working with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools
  • Strong and motivating team working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams
  • Work-life balance
  • Professional development through regular team gatherings and deep technical discussions
  • Focus on company culture, proud of the social bonding based on mutual respect
  • Personal mentoring throughout your career path

About the company

Hiflylabs is a Budapest-based company with 250+ employees, where the application development team and business intelligence experts work to provide effective solutions to business problems, with 10 years of experience across Hungarian and international BI projects in finance, telecom, and energy.

Languages: Magyar: Professzionális szintű, Angol: Professzionális szintű

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