About the job
Crunch Analytics seeks a Lead Senior Data Engineer to join the team in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland. This position focuses on building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and platforms, ensuring that data-driven insights lead to meaningful decisions for clients. Data engineering sits at the core of Crunch Analytics’ mission, bridging the gap between algorithms and real-world impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement data pipelines and infrastructure that are scalable, dependable, and easy to maintain.
- Make foundational architectural decisions early in projects to support long-term sustainability and foster client confidence.
- Guide the team in selecting the most suitable tools and strategies, such as choosing between Iceberg and traditional data warehouses or weighing a lean dbt model against a large Spark job.
- Mentor mid-level engineers, sharing expertise and raising the standard for the team.
- Challenge existing architectural assumptions and advocate for improvements when needed.
- Collaborate closely with clients from the initial concept phase through to a fully operational data platform.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and building sustainable data pipelines and platforms.
- Comfort making architectural decisions and explaining those choices to both technical teams and clients.
- Strong mentoring skills and a collaborative approach to team development.
- Ability to navigate trade-offs between different data engineering tools and methodologies.
- Willingness to engage in both hands-on engineering and high-level architectural planning.
Working at Crunch Analytics
Crunch Analytics helps organizations become truly data-driven. The team values clear, sustainable solutions over quick fixes and focuses on building data infrastructure that clients can trust for years to come.

