Senior Data Engineer (Databricks) | 12-Month Contract | Remote (Europe)🚀 Senior Data Engineer (Databricks) 📍 Remote within Europe ✈️ Occasional fully-expensed travel to Prague (typically quarterly) 🕒 Initial 12-month contract 💰 Competitive day rate 🏢 AI Innovation & Incubation ProgrammeWe're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a cutting-edge AI incubator focused on developing next-generation AI products, services and capabilities. You'll work on high-impact initiatives involving large-scale data engineering, machine learning enablement, Azure cloud technologies and modern data platforms.What You'll Be DoingDesign, build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelinesDevelop scalable ETL/ELT solutions for large and complex datasetsBuild and optimise data processing workflows using Databricks and PySparkSupport AI and Data Science teams with production-ready datasets and feature pipelinesImplement data quality, lineage, monitoring and observability capabilitiesWork closely with Machine Learning teams to enable NLP, NLU and AI use casesContribute to CI/CD and MLOps practices across the data platformEnsure reliability, scalability and operational excellence across the full data lifecycleRequired Skills✅ Strong Data Engineering experience✅ Databricks and PySpark expertise✅ Advanced Python skills✅ ETL / ELT design and implementation✅ Azure Data Platform experience✅ Data quality, governance and observability knowledge✅ Experience building production-grade data pipelines✅ Exposure to Machine Learning and AI workloadsNice to Have⭐ Azure AI Services⭐ MLflow⭐ MLOps and CI/CD implementation⭐ NLP / NLU project experience⭐ Experience in enterprise-scale AI or data platformsTech StackAzureDatabricksPySparkPythonAzure Blob StorageAzure AI ServicesMLflowCI/CDMLOpsETL/ELTData Quality & GovernanceWorking ModelFully remote day-to-dayOccasional team workshops and planning sessions in Prague (typically once per quarter)All business travel and accommodation expenses coveredFlexible working environmentInternational engineering and AI team📩 Interested? Send me a message or apply directly to discuss the project, team structure and rate details. Show more Show less