Data Engineer

ICAP Executive Search & Selection part of ICAP Group, the largest Business Services Group in South-Eastern Europe, is among the top premium consultancies in Greece. With more than 40 years of experience, we specialize in assessing and recruiting Senior to Middle Level Executives based on our client needs.

ICAP Executive Search on behalf of its client, Xrysi Eukairia, which is the leading classified ads company in Greece, specializing in the Real Estate, Jobs, Auto-Moto and Business sectors, is seeking for a Data Engineer to join their software development team.

More than 1.5 million people in Greece browse Xrysi Eukairia every month. Xrysi Eukairia ‘s ambition is to create a unique environment that will help people effortlessly match supply and demand. Whether it be in real estate, jobs, auto/moto or any of the hundred other categories they support, their goal is to offer an efficient marketplace that promotes such transactions. Under new leadership and with focus on customer satisfaction, they are looking for people to join their Engineering department in order to help achieve these goals.

You can visit their Stack Overflow page if you're curious to read more about their Engineering department, see how they spend their time and read what they currently do.

                                                                                             Data Engineer (Ref. 4838/DE/ESS/GR)

About the job opportunity

This is a technical role but liaison with various teams will occasionally be required. Data is one of the things they have lots of - in a number of formats and systems. You will spearhead the effort to understand where data is, who needs access to it in order to accomplish their goals and build a data pipeline that will be used to streamline data to information and make it available to the systems and people that need it. Daily monitoring of the data pipeline and the occasional problem solving when things break will be part of this job.

Job Requirements

What will I be doing?

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline infrastructure. Troubleshoot technical related issues at all levels of the data infrastructure.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product and Marketing teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies. Our migration towards the cloud is not complete but is underway.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Perform technology and product research to better define requirements and improve the overall capability of our stack. 

What skills do I need?

• The most important skills you will need are a pragmatic approach and strong attention to detail. The first steps in this journey can be as hard or as easy as you will make them. You will unavoidable also run into trouble spots and several different business roles will need your help, so strong problem solving, and excellent communication skills will also be required.
• You will need to have good command of data structures and algorithmic techniques. Good software development skills in Python, advanced working SQL knowledge and experience with a variety of relational databases will also be required.
• In an ideal world you will have experience with cloud based big data platforms, message queuing, stream processing, scalable data stores, data pipeline and workflow management tools, experience with BI and data visualization tools and some experience with automated web scraping. Also having hands on experience with Java would be a useful skill.
• Ability to communicate in Greek and English (verbal & written form, business proficiency).

Where will I be working?

Your place of work will be their Athens office.