IT engineer Data Lakehouse - Tech Lead | ContiTech Business Center Timisoara | CTBC |

Description

You will be the senior engineering contact for the lakehouse layer, working with teams in several countries and domains.

You will coordinate 25+ data engineering and data science professionals and work alongside platform architects, data scientists, governance teams and functional IT.

The business supplies industrial materials for off-highway, rail, road, air, food, furniture and industrial applications. It has about 20,000 employees at more than 60 sites and sales of about €6.0 billion in 2025, with core branches in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

The parent group was founded in 1871, had sales of €19.7 billion in 2025, and employs about 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise standards for data and analytics modeling, including 3NF and warehouse modeling, and for performance within the Databricks lakehouse.
• Maintain and review shared enterprise data and analytics models and artifacts, and keep naming and metadata aligned with governance rules.
• Drive reuse and consistent integration of core artifacts across all business domains.
• Guide partitioning, indexing and performance tuning.
• Build and steer semantic integration with Power BI, live tabular exploration and other tools, and own shared functions such as FX conversion, BOM logic and time-slicing.
• Review and approve core components for quality and reuse, and help resolve high-performance or high-complexity problems.
• Make sure lakehouse work follows architectural decisions and act as design authority for warehouse, semantic modeling and advanced analytics integration.
• Work with data science and AI teams on model deployment and on bringing ML and AI pipelines into the lakehouse, including LLM and external API patterns.
• Build and maintain shared libraries and engineering templates, coach junior engineers, and set TDD and as-code standards.
• Publish design guidelines, coding standards, architecture blueprints and reusable lakehouse patterns.
• Monitor usage, set auto-scaling policies, and tune cluster configurations for cost efficiency.
• Report usage and cost to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Certifications in Databricks or Microsoft (preferred).
• 6-10 years in data engineering, focused on enterprise data and analytics warehouses, lakehouse modeling and ML integration.
• Hands-on experience designing large-scale semantic, warehouse and advanced analytics layers.
• A record of owning architecture and enabling peers across diverse teams.
• Experience in international teams across several time zones and cultures, ideally (preferred) with teams in India, Germany and the Philippines.
• Skills in PySpark, Scala, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Power BI integration.
• Skills in dimensional and 3NF modeling and semantic layer design.
• Experience with ML model lifecycle integration, MLOps patterns and LLM APIs.
• Experience with test-driven development and performance profiling.
• Skills in metadata strategy, lineage tracking and naming standards.
• Experience with cross-domain business logic such as KPIs and hierarchies.
• Experience with reporting and BI tools, such as tabular analysis tools, and dashboarding tools, preferably Power BI.
• Knowledge of advanced analytics (data mining and other KDD methods), machine learning concepts and methods.
• Understanding of AI service and API integration concepts, such as LLMs.

Conditions

Hybrid work model.

Based in Timisoara.

Benefits

• A 13th salary, paid once a year in December.
• Meal tickets with a value of 40 RON.
• Private health insurance through a partner insurer.
• Referral bonuses for candidates you refer who are hired.
• Book lending, with books delivered to the office.
• A sports benefit card.
• Discounts on products and services from partner vendors, including restaurants and kindergartens.
• An improvement ideas program, with a bonus set by the improvement team according to the idea.
• Extra days off for weddings, becoming a parent, or a child's wedding.
• A bonus for welcoming a newborn into your family.
• Support in difficult life events, including free days and financial help assessed case by case.
• 22 vacation days a year, plus 1 more from your 3rd year, plus 1 more at 15 years and 1 more at 20 years, up to a maximum of 29 days.
• Development opportunities within the company.
• An inclusive, multicultural workplace with colleagues from many nations and languages.