Hybrid Data Engineer II

at Nium

• Job title: Data Engineer II
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Amazon Redshift, AWS, Cloud, Kafka, MySQL, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Malta

About the role

• Data Engineer II at Nium focused on building scalable data solutions for global payments. Collaborate with teams on cloud migration and high-impact data projects in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise scalable, maintainable, and high-performance data pipelines and workflows.
• Ingest, transform, and deliver high-volume data from a range of structured and unstructured sources, including MySQL databases and real-time Kafka streams.
• Design and maintain performant data models in Redshift, and optimise SQL queries to support analytics and reporting workloads.
• Contribute to our cloud migration journey and help evolve the data architecture with new ideas and improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional, globally distributed teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Embed data quality, reliability, observability, and security as first-class principles across the data platform.
• Support and enhance data solutions operating in a mission-critical payments environment.
• Continuously learn, share knowledge, and help raise standards across data governance, quality, and security practices.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in Data Engineering or a related role.
• Strong SQL expertise, including query optimisation, complex transformations, and datamodelling.
• Solid Python skills for data engineering and pipeline development.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Lambda, Glue, and S3, as well as Airflow for orchestration.
• Familiarity with modern transformation and modelling practices using tools such as dbt.
• A collaborative mindset, strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and a willingness to take ownership and initiative.

Benefits

• We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
• We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down.
• We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
• We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
• We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
• We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.