Big data engineer

Project Overview

UADAMAGE is hiring a Data Engineer to join a cross-functional team working on a national-scale Big Data platform for Ukraine. The project focuses on building a geospatial platform for multifactor analysis of territories to support demining and recovery planning. The system integrates remote sensing, environmental and socio-economic indicators, and includes both Big Data infrastructure and AI/ML modules. The platform is under active development with support from governance and international partners.

Role Summary

Design and maintain scalable and sustainable data pipelines within the platform to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent integration of multi-source data. Develop and support workflows for data ingestion, cleansing, normalization, and transformation from internal and external sources (e.g. government systems, commercial registers, API feeds). Ensure compatibility of all data pipelines with downstream use in GIS systems, land analysis models, dashboards and reports. Execute basic data analysis. Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams to maintain data quality and feasibility for decision-support tools. Support data architecture evolution, implement data processing best practices, and contribute to technical documentation.

Qualifications required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform development.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT), performing data cleansing, normalization, and transformation of structured and unstructured datasets.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as Python, PySpark, Scala, SQL, Pandas, NumPy and tools including Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Amazon EMR.
• Experience working with AWS-based platforms, including S3 and cloud-native data processing services.
• Practical knowledge of streaming frameworks and distributed data processing patterns, such as MapReduce and real-time cloud pipelines.
• Experience integrating data from diverse sources (relational databases, APIs, satellite/geospatial data, file systems) for use in analytical models and data management platforms.
• Understanding of data integration strategies, API/data services, and long-term system maintainability.
• Familiarity with best practices in data documentation, versioning, metadata tracking, and validation.
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats, geo coordinate systems, and spatial preprocessing is an asset.
• Experience working in complex or multi-stakeholder environments is an asset.
• Proficiency in Ukrainian and English is required.

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Motivated and engaged team
• Open communication and active knowledge sharing
• Direct support from project leadership
• Clear specifications and well-defined requirements
• Opportunity to contribute to a high-impact, nationally relevant initiative