Senior Data Engineer (relocation to Malta)

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented **Senior Data Engineer** to join our growing team in Birkirkara. In this role, you will be a key contributor to build and optimize our data infrastructure, pipelines and analytics systems. You will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining highly scalable and secure ETL/ELT data pipelines to support the needs of analytics, data science and business teams. The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills and leadership capabilities to support the development of a scalable and robust data engineering ecosystem. This role offers a hybrid work setup, providing flexibility to work both remotely and in-office, helping you achieve a balanced professional and personal life. **Responsibilities** - Architect and maintain modern data platforms, warehouses and lakes (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks) - Optimize the storage and retrieval of data and ensure performance and cost efficiency - Establish processes and systems for monitoring data quality, completeness and reliability - Automate manual processes and optimize data delivery workflows to reduce latency and improve job reliability - Implement and maintain Kafka-based streaming data pipelines for real-time data processing and integration with various systems - Integration to third party databases and APIs - Continuously refine and improve existing data systems and pipelines for scalability - Implement monitoring and alerting systems for data pipelines - Ensure data infrastructure uptime and availability **Requirements** - Minimum 5–8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, including experience with large-scale data processing - Proficiency in programming languages like Python, SQL - Expertise in building and maintaining ETL/ELT workflows using tools like Apache Airflow - Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies like Spark, Hadoop and Kafka - Working experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines - Fluency in English **We offer** - Private health insurance (including dental insurance) - EPAM Group life assurance - Wellness allowance - Employee assistance program - Corporate Programs including Employee Referral Program with rewards - Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, over 22,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more - \*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements Puna remote: Po Burimi: https://al.linkedin.com/jobs/view/senior-data-engineer-relocation-to-malta-at-epam-systems-4289657708

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