Data Engineer

Job title:

Data Engineer

Company:

EF Education First

Job description

DescriptionPosition at EF Educational ToursWe’re seeking a Data Engineer to develop, implement, and maintain our modern data infrastructure. Together with the Data Platform team, you’ll collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to streamline operations, support users, implement AIOps, and scale cloud infrastructure. This role requires expertise in Snowflake, DBT Cloud, and Python to drive automation, monitoring, and governance. The core technologies that you’ll be working with are:

• Snowflake, DBT Cloud, FiveTran, Prefect
• Python (especially Streamlit and Pandas)
• SQL (especially Snowflake’s flavor)
• Git and CI/CD pipelines

What you’ll doInfrastructure & Automation

• Implement Snowflake monitoring, alerts, and cost management
• Troubleshoot transformation pipelines and automate governance
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines across data repositories
• Assist in the transition from legacy MS SQL Server to Snowflake by developing migration automation and ensuring data integrity.

Innovation & Operations

• Implement AIOps to enhance platform intelligence and proactively address issues
• Build self-service tools and automation frameworks to streamline data workflows and reduce manual intervention.
• Create dashboards for system usage, health, security, and cost monitoring
• Identify and implement workflow enhancements

Support & Administration

• Develop training materials and conduct onboarding sessions for engineers and analysts to maximize adoption of data platform tools.
• Participate in on-call rotation for system support
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to troubleshoot workflows
• Collaborate with IT to scale cloud infrastructure as needed

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years of data engineering and systems administration experience
• Strong SQL skills, with a preference for Snowflake experience, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience with modern data stack components (Prefect, DBT, FiveTran, Pandas)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or e)quivalent)
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (a plus)
• Ability to partner with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to develop scalable and accessible data solutions.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot, optimize, and innovate in a fast-paced environment.

About EF Education FirstAt EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs-focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics-turn dreams into international opportunities.When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about-we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at .Please note that we’re trying to build a great company culture and a cohesive office, which means that this is a 5-day in-office role.

Expected salary

Location

Budapest

Job date

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:58:31 GMT

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