Senior Data Engineer

Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Listed on three major stock markets: Nasdaq (US), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands) and IBEX 35 (Spain), we are also member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide. Ferrovial’s activity is carried out through our business units, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.  

Our Corporate organization oversees business activities, providing strategic planning, communication, legal, finance and human resources services to the business units. As a member of our corporate organization, you will have a broad view of our company, further supporting your career development.

Why Ferrovial?

• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
• Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.    
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
• Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
• Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Data Analytics for Cintra (Spain based) you will:

Strategy:

• Be fully aligned with business leaders to understand their challenges and opportunities in terms of data.
• Identify the business value that a new initiative or feature can potentially bring to the business area.
• Shape and safeguard the best practices and guidelines defined for Ferrovial's data architecture.  

Data Products Delivery / Evolution:

• You will propose flexible, scalable, and cost-effective data solutions.
• You could develop optimal and scalable data processing pipelines within an Azure environment, Data Factory and Databricks on your own.
• You will serve as the technical point of reference for toll roads data projects, collaborating on the product roadmap from a technical perspective, coordinating technical decissions with other product teams, and guaranteeing the feasibility, sustainability, and quality of these decisions.
• You will manage a technical team (external parties) to deliver data initiatives following the best practices of Data Engineering and the different platforms and tools.
• You will use your technical criteria to choose between different technical proposals.
• You will collaborate with other areas of the company (Cloud, Developer Experience, Security, Architecture, etc.) to build optimal products and solutions.
• You will foster a culture of continuous improvement, where quality, monitoring, and automation are embedded throughout the entire process.
• You will grant an excellent user experience when consuming data (usability & performance criteria).
• You will apply and / or guarantee that security and governance policies are applied, aligned with Ferrovial standards and regulation.

Quality Supervision & Development Teams Support:

• Validate third-party technical proposals approving or rejecting them as needed.
• Ensure that agreed standards and working practices are followed.
• Ensure that development teams reuse visual repositories, certified components, and existing reference architectures to accelerate data platform delivery.
• Provide expert guidance to delivery teams for complex challenges or business-critical systems, acting as an internal consultant.

Operations & Maintenance:

• Provide technical expertise and support to dev teams in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue.
• Forecast and control the cost evolution associated to the use of the existing data pipelines.
• Work on a continuous improvement framework to optimize both, the technical solution performance and the cost associated to it.

Collaboration with the Global Data Strategy

• You will promote a data-driven company.
• You will measure and leverage the value of data in the organization.
• You will take into consideration Ferrovial internal data standards, components and best practices.
• You will promote the standardization of business data domains in your business area.
• You will contribute to the creation of an enterprise data catalog and data glossary for your data products.

Innovation:

• Keep up to date with new trends, new data services and components.
• Lead proofs of concept with external partners to test new data services.

Requirements

• Experience in data architecture within Azure environments.
• At least 3 years of experience managing data development teams and being a “hands-on” profile is a MUST.
• At least 5 years of experience designing and developing data architectures and pipelines (data modelling – logical and physical structure-, medallion architecture, governance - data security/privacy -)
• Demonstrated experience working with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables
• Demonstrated experience leading data initiatives that process information on real time or near real time.
• Passion for teamwork, especially under agile methodologies.
• Passion for the practical application of technology, particularly within the ecosystem of distributed architectures, data, and Artificial Intelligence.
• Mindset focused on automation and continuous integration.
• A continuous learning mentality and enthusiasm for sharing knowledge and experiences with the rest of the team.
• Orientation towards continuous improvement and a practical approach to software engineering.
• Ability to manage technical teams.
• Appreciation for dynamic, fast-paced, and agile environments.
• Experience in distributed and cloud-native architectures and DevSecOps environments.
• Experience with the following languages: Python
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in both English and Spanish
• Knowledge in quality engineering and test automation in CD/CI environments will be positively valued.
• Knowledge or experience in ML environments with MLOps will be valued.
• Experience in implementing observability mechanisms, including monitoring business KPIs, will be positively valued.

Seize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. Your journey to a fulfilling career starts here!

Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer.  We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.

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