Data Engineer
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Every auction generates data: lots, bids, bidders, logistics, valuations, payments. Nine brands means nine sets of different systems, conventions and quirks. The Data team's job is to maintain a Data Platform that ingests said data to enable it’s usage, transformation, and eventually value generation.
What you will do
You'll join an established Data Team as a Data Engineer, working alongside fellow Analytical Engineers and Data Analysts, building and running the pipelines and infrastructure that move data from a variety of different systems (e.g. Services such as Bloomreach, API sources and a variety of databases) into Databricks and out to the people and products that use it.
This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership. You'll pick up components end to end, from the conversation with the stakeholder about what they actually need, through the design, to the provisioning of the infrastructure, ending with the orchestration of the different processes in a reliable, visible and cost-effective way.
This is also a role where new systems can and will come into play. Being able to integrate said systems into the Data Platform in a modular manner that upholds the strengths and principals of the platform while delivering the intended value is a key challenge.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain ETL data pipelines in Python, orchestrated with Airflow, processing data in Databricks on Azure
Define infrastructure as code with Terraform, and ship it through Azure DevOps pipelines with shared libraries published as Artifacts
Build and integrate APIs (FastAPI or similar) to make data available to other teams and services
Containerize workloads with Docker and keep them running reliably in production
Write the design down before you build it: architecture diagrams and documentation that someone else can follow six months from now
Take part in our RFC process. Propose designs, review your colleagues', and disagree constructively
Work directly with fellow Analytical Engineers and Data Anlaysts within the Data Team, external stakeholders across the brands and central functions to gather requirements, run through options and translate what they ask for into what they need
Own the operational side of what you build: monitoring, cost, data quality, incident response
What you bring
Technical
Strong Python skills, with the habits that make code maintainable: tests, structure, review
Working experience with Airflow or a comparable orchestrator
Experience on Azure, and with Azure DevOps for CI/CD (Pipelines, and Artifacts for shared packages)
Databricks (incl. Asset Bundle deployment) or similar data platform tool experience
Terraform, or experience with an alternate infrastructure as code tool and a willingness to learn.
Docker, and comfort with how containers behave in production vs development
Familiarity with DBT best practices and implementation
An understanding of how to tackle different extraction sources, such as databases, service, API endpoints, etc.
API design and integration (e.g. FastAPI)
Real comfort in the terminal: git, shell, debugging a process on a box/container you've SSH'd into, without reaching for a GUI
Enough networking to be useful. DNS, TLS, firewall rules, private endpoints, VNets. You don't need to be a network engineer, but "it's a networking problem" shouldn't be where you stop
Business-facing
You can design a system and explain it: a clear architecture diagram and design document that a mixed audience of engineers and non-engineers can both follow
You design in the open. You write proposals, you invite review early, and you change your mind when someone makes a better argument
You can sit with a stakeholder who doesn't know what they want yet and leave the room with a specification. Running a workshop shouldn't scare you
You communicate comfortably in English, in writing, with colleagues across several countries
Nice to have
Experience in a multi-brand, multi-country or post-merger environment, where the same concept is modelled three different ways and someone has to reconcile it
Data modelling for analytics (Medallion architecture, dimensional modelling)
Streaming or event-driven work (Kafka, Event Hubs)
Data governance, lineage or cataloguing tooling
What we offer you
An established Data platform with room to grow and be shaped by you
Work with a mixed group of data professionals from a variety of backgrounds
Direct exposure to the business. As part of a smaller team, you will have more ownership of the direction of work
Gross yearly salary of € 65.000 - € 80.000 (including holiday allowance), depending on experience
Bonus scheme
Pension scheme
25 vacation days
Laptop and iPhone
Training opportunities
Ready to join us?
Apply via our careers page or reach out directly. We'd love to hear from you.
- Department
- Data & Engineering
- Location
- TBAuctions | Amsterdam
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Yearly salary
- €65,000 - €80,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
About TBAuctions
TBAuctions (TBA) is Europe's leading digital auction platform for B2B used industrial equipment. Our team of 1.200+ employees across 9 brands, including Klaravik, Troostwijk Auctions, Surplex, Auksjonen, PS Auctions, British Medical Auctions, Vavato, HT Auctions & Valuations, and Auktionshuset dab, connects sellers and buyers in 175 countries. We're extending the life of business goods and facilitating the circular economy, powered by our own intelligent auctioning technology, AI, and automation. Our motto: "Everything Has Value."