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Staff Data Platform Engineer

Lead · Amsterdam · flexibel (in overleg)

Beschikbaar per 1 jun 2026

Most recently leading the build of a greenfield enterprise data platform for a global industrial-products wholesaler.

  • Gescreend door FreelanceTribes
  • Profiel bijgewerkt 13 mei 2026
Sector
IT
Werkvorm
Flexibel (in overleg)

What to hire them for

Most recently leading the build of a greenfield enterprise data platform for a global industrial-products wholesaler. Six-person team, medallion architecture on Databricks + Unity Catalog, dbt orchestrated via Airflow/Cosmos on Kubernetes, Terraform and GitLab CI throughout, Grafana for observability — replacing a legacy AWS (Glue, S3, Aurora) stack via a smooth migration path. As the most senior engineer on the team I own the hard parts: codifying Unity Catalog schemas and fine-grained permissions, reverse-engineering Microsoft Fabric APIs to make Power BI ↔ Databricks provisioning a one-command operation, and stepping in as de facto DBA on heavy PostgreSQL tuning for frontend workloads. I introduced agent-assisted development to the team with a hardened, sandboxed setup and version-controlled agent configs, applied to data-quality, ops, infra refactors and documentation. Mentored senior and medior engineers across the platform team and downstream consumers.

  • 20+ years building production data platforms — Booking, Just Eat Takeaway, Seenons, Brenntag
  • Co-founded Booking.com's Hadoop initiative — multi-petabyte clusters, billions of events daily
  • Hired and led 20+ engineers at Just Eat Takeaway, up to 12 direct reports
  • Stood up a production Snowflake + dbt platform in under 2 months at Seenons

Skills

Tools & platforms

  • Databricks + Unity Catalog
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Airflow (Cosmos)
  • Dagster
  • Glue Workflows
  • Redshift
  • DuckDB
  • Airbyte
  • Tableau
  • DMS
  • RDS/Aurora
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • S3
  • CloudFormation)
  • Azure
  • Pulumi
  • Kubernetes
  • k3s
  • Grafana OnCall
  • Prometheus
  • CloudWatch
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • YARN
  • Hive
  • network-level troubleshooting

Project preferences

  • Looking for Staff / Lead Data Platform Engineer engagements where I can push real innovation into production — data platforms end-to-end (Databricks + Unity Catalog, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow), cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi on AWS/Azure), and the surrounding ops layer (Grafana, GitLab/GitHub CI, Kubernetes).
  • Equally interested in AI-tooling and agent-assisted engineering inside professional settings — hardened sandboxed setups, version-controlled agent configs, reviewable workflows — applied to data quality, infra refactors, internal tooling, and documentation.
  • Best fit: scale-ups and enterprises building a modern data platform from scratch or migrating off a legacy stack. Comfortable as the most senior engineer on a small team, owning hard problems end-to-end and mentoring senior/medior engineers. Hybrid in NL (Amsterdam based) or remote across EU.

Working style

Team building & hiring — 20+ engineers hired at Just Eat Takeaway across the tenure; built and led teams of up to 12 direct reports. Mentoring — deliberate and ongoing across every role: senior and medior engineers on the platform team and in downstream consuming teams, through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing on hard problems. Clean handovers — trained app teams to own what I built (PostgreSQL tuning runbooks at Brenntag, interns running the Seenons platform independently). Cross-discipline communication — comfortable from kernel-level engineering through to non-technical stakeholders; reshaped Booking's internal tech-talks format (still in use after my tenure). Calm under pressure — established 24/7 on-call culture at JET; production debugging at petabyte scale at Booking.

Beschikbaar per 1 jun 2026

Rate

€145 /uur

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