Senior Data Engineer - Data Services
- Pleo
- Amsterdam, Copenhagen HQ, Lisbon, London, Madrid
- 04/04/2025
Job Description
This role is ideal for someone who’s not just a strong builder, but a systems thinker—ready to lead architecture decisions, guide data engineering across Pleo, and help us level up how we do data engineering at scale.
The Data Service Team
At Pleo, data is at the heart of decision-making, and the Data Service team is responsible for making that possible. Part of the Data platform group, we own the data warehouse and key data models at the core of our self-service data platform. Our mission is to deliver a high-quality self-service platform, where analytics teams across Pleo can access the right data in a way that works best for them.
You will thrive in this role if you
- Have practical experience building self-service data platforms at scale, using modern data stack tooling. Bonus if you've used the same technology as us: dbt, BigQuery, Looker
- Are proficient at modeling data to support self-service analytics, translating complex transactional data into easy to use models
- Are a technical leader, who can articulate a compelling vision for what good looks like and align other engineers to it
- Have strong opinions on what good data engineering looks like, and are ready to help others to get there through documentation, pair programming, or thoughtful advice
- Can translate ambiguous business requirements into robust and elegant technical solutions
In this role, you will
- Own the architecture and implementation of our data warehouse, including data transformation pipelines, dbt models and the semantic layer
- Collaborate with analysts and business subject matter experts to translate business logic into scalable, well-documented models that power dashboards, KPIs, and decision-making.
- Review PRs, mentor other engineers in the team, as well as analysts and analytics engineers in distributed teams, and act as a champion for data engineering best practices.
- Work closely with our Data infrastructure team to define the shape of the overall data platform at Pleo
- Champion and implement data governance practices—including documentation, naming conventions, and consistent metric definitions.
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!) Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
- Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
- We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
- Flexibility/remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️
- Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
- When you submit an application we process your personal data as a data processor. Find out more about how your data is used in the FAQs section at the bottom of our jobs page.
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1 The first call(s)
Let’s get to know each other. We want to find out more about you, your motivations, and give you more information about the role.
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2 The challenge
The task is deliberately open-ended and based on something you'll actually work on. There are no right or wrong answers here.
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3 The team interview
Expect to share a (virtual) meeting room with two to three people you'll work with regularly if you get the job.
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4 The final interview
A call with someone in leadership who’ll walk you through the big picture and chat about how your role will figure into that.
