Hybrid Senior Data Engineer – Payments Unit

at Luminor Group

• Job title: Senior Data Engineer – Payments Unit
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €3,000 - €5,300 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Amazon Redshift, AWS, Azure, BigQuery, Cloud, Docker, ETL, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Python, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Riga, Latvia

About the role

• Senior Data Engineer in Luminor's Payments team responsible for data architectures and ETL pipelines. Building reliable data systems while collaborating in a Pan-Baltic environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continuously improve systems for data ingestion, processing, storage, and sharing
• Build and optimize data architectures for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools and frameworks
• Ensure seamless integration and synchronization across systems
• Uphold high standards of data quality, security, availability, and performance
• Collaborate with analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver solutions
• Perform code reviews, troubleshoot software, and fix defects
• Implement monitoring and alerting for data workflows
• Gain expertise in a variety of banking processes and products
• Work as part of a cross-functional Agile development team in a Pan-Baltic, international environment

Requirements

• Proven experience with SQL and Python; Other ETL engines are a plus
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Understanding of streaming data pipelines and platforms (Kafka, Spark, Flink)
• Familiarity with data pipeline tools like Airflow or dbt
• Experience with data warehousing solutions (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Knowledge of solution integrations (real-time, message-based, event-driven)
• Exposure to test automation and DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code and security best practices
• Experience within the risk or finance business domain is a strong advantage
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently
• Fluent English is required in spoken and written communication due to working on the Pan-Baltic level.

Benefits

• Flexibility. Flexible working hours, Hybrid work, and the possibility to work from anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Switzerland, and the UK (in total 90 days per year)
• International teams. Teams that go outside Pan-Baltic borders, where people value challenging work together with good humor and having fun
• Culture. You’ll be joining a team where things move fast, ideas flow freely, and change is part of the everyday. It’s a dynamic environment that keeps you learning, growing, and never bored
• More vacation. Additional weeks of vacation are available to all employees who have been in the company for 1 year or more
• Volunteer time off. We care about giving back to society, therefore, you will get additional days off for volunteering purposes
• Paid leave. We are proud of our employees who are participating in military training. Therefore, Luminor offers 30 fully paid calendar days for military training every year
• Health benefits. A competitive benefits package in addition to your salary that includes health insurance after the first 3 months pass in all three Baltic states, as well as Health days in case of your absence due to sickness without a doctor's note needed
• Wellbeing. Access to tools and resources that help you feel good and be productive at work and in life
• Professional growth. Internal and external training programs, LinkedIn learning, workshops, conferences, online training, etc
• Special Offer for Luminor products & services. Enjoy special offers & pricing for products and services provided by Luminor