Data Engineer (Scala)

Senior Data Engineer (Scala)

Location: Amsterdam (hybrid)

Are you a data engineer with hands-on Scala experience who wants to build large-scale, mission-critical data pipelines for one of the world's leading airlines? Join a team that builds scalable data infrastructure supporting predictive maintenance, disruption management, and operational efficiency across the entire airline.

Data engineers here build scalable data pipelines, manage cloud platforms, and support aviation innovations using functional programming and big data tech stacks like Scala, Spark, and Kafka.

What you'll do

Build, secure, and manage reliable data pipelines and data flows from multiple internal and external sources

Integrate data into cloud-based platforms to support analytics and operational tools, ensuring platform scalability

Collaborate closely with data scientists, product owners, and business analysts on data-driven aviation projects

Support and maintain the data infrastructure behind advanced AI tools, including predictive maintenance models, disruption decision-support systems, and applications that help reduce operational waste

Manage active data integrations across operations, fleet maintenance, and e-commerce systems within a cloud environment

Tech stack

Scala and functional programming

Spark and Kafka

Cloud-based data platforms

This is you

Around 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer

Hands-on experience with Scala

Knowledge of open-source technologies like Spark, Kafka, Airflow or Kubernetes

Comfortable working with a variety of data types, formats, and velocities and scaling from a single machine to distributed systems

Customer-focused with a strong can-do mentality; results-driven and eager to take on challenging tasks

Interested? We'd love to meet you!

Please get in touch with Samantha Alves Goncalves at sgoncalves@xccelerated.io or by phone at 0613889770.