Lead Data Engineer

Maybe you call yourself a Data Engineer, or maybe you just call yourself Alex? Your next big step in data starts here; delivering impact, celebrating success, and having serious fun doing it.

What do we offer?

• A salary between EUR 5,000 - 7,500 per month + profit sharing + pension.

• 5,000 annual level-up budget + 8% holiday allowance+ 25 holidays.

• 500 home office budget + laptop + team outings + casual drinks +celebrative days.+ “Hey, well done buddy!” every now and then.

• Sabbatical up to 4 months + special leave + buy up to 10 extra vacation days.

• Work remotely : As long as it is within a similar time zone, and you are present at every quarterly company meeting in the Netherlands or abroad.

• Company gatherings abroad 2x a year, in the hometown of one of our heroes. Everyone comes together to connect, have serious fun and work on improving All Your BI

• Autonomy: use the tools you love the most, try new ones, and build solutions the way you think is best

• The space to shape your role: tell us what your dream role looks like, and we’ll help you along the way.

• An entrepreneurial culture where we focus on business value. Where you have an official say in the strategy of our agency, and where you can pursue your own genius ideas if you see and take action on the opportunity.

• FUN! It’s all about happiness at work. To us, that means true team spirit, a well-balanced work life, doing work you love, taking any opportunity to have a laugh, and enjoying crazy outings and social get-togethers (if you want to).

About us

All Your BI is a fast-growing data agency in Rotterdam, Netherlands, specializing in managed services Business Intelligence solutions. Since 2019, we have evolved from a boutique consultancy into an international, remote-first organization supporting global clients with scalable BI solutions. Our core values: amaze clients, deliver value over perfection, we own it together, and have serious fun. These beliefs and behaviors shape our culture and community. As we enter our next chapter and move toward a product-enabled, distributed, high-autonomy company.

About the Role

The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for architecting and delivering modern, scalable Azure-based data platforms that enable reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient data solutions for AYBI and its clients. This role ensures seamless integration of diverse data sources, drives engineering excellence through best practices in CI/CD and DataOps, and sets architectural standards that support long-term growth and innovation.

Responsibilities you are looking for

• Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of Azure data platforms, including Synapse, Databricks, Data Lake Gen2, Snowflake, ADF, and Azure SQL.

• Lead and execute complex data platform migrations (e.g., on-prem Azure) ensuring reliability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.

• Architect and integrate multiple data sources (APIs, databases, SaaS systems, files, streaming sources) into unified, scalable data platforms.

• Define and maintain architectural standards and reusable patterns for data platforms, pipelines, modeling, governance, and engineering best practices across projects.

• Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data models (medallion, lakehouse, Kimball) across Databricks, Synapse, and ADF.

• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, DevOps/DataOps, automated testing, monitoring, and robust data quality frameworks

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, contributing to code, guiding design decisions, and mentoring engineers across cloud data technologies.

• Collaborate with clients, POs, PMs, Analysts, and BI Consultants to shape requirements, communicate technical outcomes in business terms, and identify opportunities for improvement and value creation.

You’ll ace this position if you love to

• Collaborate with different clients, large and small, solving complex data puzzles on a project basis

• Build smart tools that automate and improve our work.

• Work with the Microsoft stack (and beyond), always choosing the best tools for the job.

• Work in a low-bureaucracy, fast-paced scale-up environment.

• Being part of a highly collaborative, fun, and ambitious.

• 10+ years of data engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a technical lead role.

• Track record of leading projects end-to-end from requirements gathering through to solution delivery and deployment.

• Expertise across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including (ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Data Lake, Power BI).

• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms such as Azure.

• Proficient in SQL and Python ,people may even call you a genius with it.

• Expertise in architecting and leading the implementation of cloud-native data warehouse solutions.

• Hands-on experience across the end-to-end data lifecycle: from modeling to pipelines, reporting, and governance.

• Strong communication skills to share insights with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Must have: Certifications

Our hiring procedure:

1. Recruiter Interview (45 min)

The recruiter assesses candidate’s motivation, ways of working, communication, interpersonal skills, job fit, and role clarity. Candidates who demonstrate strong alignment and fit during the recruiter interview are invited to complete the home assignment.

2. Home Assignment + Technical Interview (1 hour)

The technical interview is evaluated by 2 of our experts, who then assesses candidate’s technical capabilities and problem-solving skills, during the live home assignment review. The candidate presents their solution, explains their approach, and answers scenario-based questions. Topics typically include architecture design, data modeling, pipelines, tooling choices, performance, cost considerations, scalability, governance, and quality practices.

3.Cultural Interview (1 hour)

The cultural interview is assessed by 2 BI consultants who examines how candidates demonstrate AYBI’s values in real situations e.g. working with stakeholders, projects, and collaborating with colleagues, and how well you would operate within AYBI’s holacracy operating system.

4.Leadership / Co-Founder Interview (45 mins)

In this stage, leaders conducts an interview with you to understand how your work competencies, capabilities and values fit with AYBI’s culture, and core values.