Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Pleo's Data Service team as a Senior II Analytics Engineer and play a key role in shaping data modeling, consumption, and maintenance. You will own critical data models, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with various teams to enhance analytics engineering company-wide. This role requires expertise in modern data tools like dbt, Looker, and BigQuery, a strategic approach to data modeling, and a strong product mindset. You'll champion best practices, mentor others, and contribute to the long-term vision of analytics engineering at Pleo. Pleo offers a diverse and inclusive work environment with various benefits, including a Pleo card, catered lunches or a monthly allowance, private health insurance, flexible work options, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Be passionate about building scalable, maintainable data infrastructure using modern tools like dbt, Looker, and BigQuery
• Think strategically about data model design—balancing technical scalability with business usability
• Be skilled at identifying opportunities to reduce complexity, eliminate manual work, and enable self-serve analytics
• Bring a strong product mindset to data problems, and enjoy collaborating closely with analysts, engineers, and product managers
• Want to influence how analytics engineering is practiced—through standards, tooling, mentoring, and thought partnership
• Work in English with ease (it's our company language)

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of cross-domain data models that support key business metrics and use cases
• Partner with analysts and data engineers to translate business logic into performant, well-documented dbt models
• Champion best practices in testing, documentation, CI/CD, and version control, and guide others in applying them
• Act as a technical mentor to other analytics engineers, supporting their development and reviewing their code
• Collaborate with central data platform and embedded teams to improve data quality, metric consistency, and lineage tracking
• Drive alignment on model architecture across domains—ensuring models are reusable, auditable, and trusted
• Identify and lead initiatives to reduce technical debt and modernise legacy reporting pipelines
• Contribute to the long-term vision of analytics engineering at Pleo and help shape our roadmap for scalability and impact

Preferred Qualifications

• Bring a solution-centric mindset
• Be a continuous learner & systematic thinker
• Be a person they would also enjoy having a coffee with (virtual or not)

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶