Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist

About the Position

NN Digital Hub, a subsidiary of NN Group located in Madrid, Spain, is seeking an experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist to join our team. We aim to become a socially responsible tech company that delivers digital products our customers love. The role is pivotal in enhancing data engineering capabilities and driving community engagement across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive data-engineering standards and best practices, establishing robust engineering guardrails adopted by teams across business units.
• Organize and facilitate Guild events such as meetups, tech talks, office hours, and hackathons.
• Serve as a visible champion for shared success, encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams.
• Evangelize reusable engineering patterns, platform capabilities, and shared assets.
• Own and continuously improve NN’s Data Engineering learning track, part of its internal Data Literacy Program.
• Keep the curriculum up to date, relevant, and engaging, including exercises and assessments.
• Deliver training workshops and onboarding programs for new and experienced data engineers.
• Act as a coach and mentor, helping engineers across all business units advance their skills.
• Develop clear documentation, guidelines, FAQs, and playbooks, keeping knowledge assets accessible and current.
• Represent Data Engineering in cross-domain forums and communities of practice, including Data Science, Architecture, and Engineering.
• Work closely with data-engineering teams in different business units and the central Data Platform team to align on best practices and standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent level of experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering and/or data-platform development in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with lakehouse/data-platform technologies - Databricks is preferred - and modern data-engineering practices.
• Understanding of lakehouse architectures, data modelling, including medallion patterns, ingestion and transformation patterns, and data-quality concepts.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment and can drive initiatives through influence rather than formal authority.
• Communicate clearly, facilitate groups confidently, and adapt your message to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong enablement mindset and enjoy coaching others, designing learning experiences, and growing an engineering community.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or running internal enablement programs, academies, learning tracks, communities of practice, or guilds.
• Relevant certifications, such as Databricks Data Engineer, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Experience in an enablement-focused setup, such as a Centre of Excellence, platform team, or federated operating model.

We Offer

• Hybrid work model.
• Financial support to equip your home workspace.
• Allowance and telework subsidies.
• Flexible working hours and two months of intensive summer working hours.
• Life insurance and pension plan.
• Performance-based objectives bonus.
• Free parking for cars, motorcycles, electric cars with chargers, and bikes.
• Flexible compensation, including transport card, nursery checks, Sanitas health insurance, and training.
• Volunteering opportunities and time for employees to contribute to society.
• Wellness program.
• An Agile, technology-focused work environment.

About the Company

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of NN Group located in Madrid, Spain. We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units. We are committed to teamwork, knowledge-sharing, continuous learning, and actively encourage innovation and personal development.