Data Engineer – Consulting assignment within tech & communications security

At WeQuel, we are now looking for a Data Engineer, remote or hybrid, where you become an important part of the Data Infrastructure team responsible for building and maintaining a scalable, robust, self-service analytics platform. You will play a key role in keeping data flowing reliably at massive scale while helping shape the tools, frameworks and best practices that support every team on the platform.

As a consultant with us, you get the opportunity to work with one of our clients, a leading company within communication and security technology whose mission is to build trust in communication by making it safer, smarter and more efficient. Born in Sweden and trusted by the world, the company is used by over 450 million active users every month across 190+ countries, identifies over 15 billion calls daily to help users avoid spam and scams, and is powered by a team of 450+ employees representing 45+ nationalities who take initiative, own their work and keep raising the bar.

Your responsibilities:

Maintenance and improvement of the ingestion pipeline, reliably delivering billions of events daily within a defined SLA
Support for all teams in building and optimizing their complex pipelines
Close collaboration with other teams to identify pain points and problems around the platform
Development of new tools and frameworks to improve the data platform
Close collaboration with data scientists and data analysts to support their work in production
Work on large-scale projects such as building an ML platform and streaming use cases
Establishing best practices and processes around software and data development
Hands-on work building, scaling and operating production-grade data platforms/infrastructure, including reliability, observability, performance and self-service capabilities

You work in a dynamic environment where you independently drive your own workflow forward while collaborating with multiple interfaces within the organization.

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in data engineering
Fluent in English, spoken and written
Experience working with an orchestration tool (e.g. Airflow)
Experience working with large data sets and building complex ETL pipelines
Experience working with cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
Strong programming skills in Spark with Scala and Python
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git
Strong understanding of software engineering practices and principles
Self-motivated, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills and a proven ability to take initiative and own problems through to resolution

Nice to have:

Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka
Knowledge of Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with streaming platforms
Experience managing a data warehouse in BigQuery or Redshift

Assignment details

Start: 2026-09-07
End: 2027-06-30
Workload: 100%
Location: Remote

We offer
At WeQuel, you become part of a consulting team that values people first – we believe success is created through engagement, collaboration and development. We offer a flat organization with short decision-making paths, a strong sense of community, and the opportunity to influence your own development.

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