Data Engineer II

Distilled

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Engineer II will help transform data generated by Ireland’s leading online marketplaces—Daft.ie, DoneDeal.ie and Adverts.ie—into useful insights for users and employees. The role builds processes to ingest, store and transform data for reporting and insights, and to support website features, including predictive models. The position develops and maintains data pipelines, data transformations, data models, feature pipelines, and training and scoring workflows for predictive models in production. It also supports platform maintenance, works with application development teams on data features for website users, and uses modern AI tooling such as Amazon Bedrock for marketplace use cases and internal self-serve data tools. The role is based between home and the company’s Dublin city centre office. The company offers paid leave, paid Irish Life Healthcare, a contributory pension, commuter schemes, and personal development planning.

Requirements

At least 2 years of proven data engineering experience, with some exposure to machine learning in production.
Hands-on experience with SQL, including DDL and DML, and Python in a professional role.
Experience with relational databases such as Redshift, Postgres or MySQL.
Experience working on large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects built on highly available, distributed systems.
A collaborative spirit and growth mindset.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or productionising machine learning workflows in Python, such as with scikit-learn or XGBoost, and a solid grasp of evaluating model performance.
Experience with cloud technologies; the company uses AWS services including Redshift, Lambda, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Bedrock and SageMaker.
Experience with ML platforms and MLOps tooling, such as SageMaker, feature stores and model monitoring.

Responsibilities

Develop data pipelines and associated transformations that support data production and consumption throughout the organisation.
Ensure data is trusted by consumers, colleagues and partners, and provide timely and appropriate data to support the business.
Drive data modeling activities that simplify raw data into consumable datasets for end users.
Build and maintain feature pipelines and training and scoring workflows for predictive models in production.
Support platform maintenance activities to ensure ongoing smooth operation.
Collaborate with Daft and DoneDeal application development teams to provide data for website features.
Work with AI tooling such as Amazon Bedrock to power use cases on Daft and DoneDeal and internal self-serve data tooling.

Benefits

22 days of annual leave, plus 3 company days over Christmas.
Four Fridays off each August as Thank You Days.
An additional day of leave on each of the first four anniversaries, up to 26 days.
Irish Life Healthcare fully paid for.
Regular health and wellbeing talks, events and activities.
A 5% employer pension contribution through a contributory scheme.
Hybrid working split between home and the Dublin city centre office.
TaxSaver Commuter Scheme.
Bike to Work Scheme.
Personal development plans to support career growth.