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payabl. empowers businesses to grow through payments innovation and banking services. Our ambition is to expand our strong portfolio of global financial services we provide to businesses and make them all available in one place on our platform we call payabl.one. As a licensed financial company with principal membership with card schemes, we specialize in global payments and providing businesses with multi-currency accounts. The role is about: Data Team, where you play a vital role in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to support decision-making across the organization. Your tasks include data collection, ensuring quality, and developing databases. You're skilled in SQL, Python for data manipulation and visualization tools. Collaborative and communicative, you work with various teams to understand their needs and provide actionable insights. Passionate about staying updated with new technologies, you drive innovation and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. Location: remote Poland, Portugal  or on-site Cyprus Reporting to: Head of Engineering What you will do:   Lakehouse Architecture and Data Platform Design Design, build, and maintain scalable data lakehouse solutions on AWS using S3, Apache Iceberg, and AWS Glue Catalog as core platform components. Contribute to the evolution of the medallion architecture, ensuring that bronze, silver, and gold layers are reliable, performant, and aligned with business needs. CDC and Streaming Data Ingestion Build and support real-time and near-real-time ingestion pipelines that stream operational data from on-premise databases into AWS using Debezium, Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Iceberg sinks. Monitor and troubleshoot streaming pipelines, including connector issues, schema changes, data consistency, and ingestion reliability. Data Modelling and Business-Ready Layers Design and implement silver and gold layer datasets that transform raw operational data into trusted, business-ready data products. Work closely with analysts, analytics engineers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and create reusable, well-structured data models. Batch and Distributed Processing Develop and maintain batch and distributed processing jobs using PySpark on AWS EMR and AWS Glue. Optimize data transformation jobs for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Data Integration and Orchestration Build and maintain data workflows using Apache Airflow for API ingestion, batch processing, and orchestration across the medallion architecture. Support integrations from external and third-party systems using tools such as Airbyte. Data Quality, Governance, and Reliability Implement data quality checks, validation processes, and reconciliation logic to ensure trusted and consistent datasets across the platform. Contribute to data governance practices around documentation, ownership, lineage, access, and compliance. Infrastructure and DevOps Collaboration Collaborate on AWS infrastructure and deployment practices, working with services such as S3, Glue, EMR, IAM, EKS, and related platform components. Support infrastructure-as-code workflows using Terraform and Terragrunt in collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams. What we need: Minimum 3+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles. Strong experience with SQL and data modeling for analytics and reporting use cases. Strong programming experience with Python, ideally including PySpark. Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in production environments. Experience with real-time or near-real-time data ingestion. Experience working with Kafka or similar streaming technologies. Experience with CDC concepts and tools such as Debezium. Experience with data lake or lakehouse architectures on cloud platforms. Hands-on experience with AWS data services such as: S3, Glue Catalog, Glue Jobs, EMR, IAM,