#CORE Senior Data Engineer – SAP BI & Palantir Foundry F/M

Job Description:

An opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer has arisen within Airbus Helicopters (Albacete, Spain)

WHY JOIN US?

📍 LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

🚁 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

✨THE PROJECT: SHAPING THE FUTURE - Welcome to the Digital Campus, a pioneering ecosystem dedicated to industrial digitalization and innovation. This is more than just a workplace; it is a technological hub where we define the future of flight. 

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

You will join the Data & Analytics team. In this role, you will act as a Developer within an Agile Release Train. You will be responsible for building high-performance data products and applications that bridge our industrial core (SAP BW) with our advanced big data ecosystem (Palantir Foundry). You will play a critical role in the digital continuity of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer.

YOUR CHALLENGES:

• Agile Delivery: Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, System Demos, Sprint Retrospectives). Collaborate within a cross-functional Agile Team to deliver "Definition of Done" increments.

• Data Engineering (SAP Focus): Design and develop complex data models within SAP BW (on HANA / BW/4HANA). Manage back-end extractions (ABAP, CDS views), transformation logic, and optimize queries for large-scale industrial datasets.

• Data Engineering (Foundry Focus): Build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines in Palantir Foundry. Utilize PySpark and SQL to transform raw data into a structured "Ontology" that powers operational decision-making.

• Hybrid Integration: Ensure seamless data flow between the SAP landscape and the Palantir environment, maintaining high standards of data integrity and latency.

• Built-in Quality: Apply DevOps and DataOps principles. Perform peer code reviews, automated testing, and maintain technical documentation to ensure long-term maintainability of the data platform.

• Innovation: Contribute to the "Enabler" stories to improve the architectural runway of the Data & Analytics platform.

SKILLS

Is your profile aligned to the following list of skills? Apply! We are looking forward to know you:

Experience & Education

• Experience: 5 to 10 years of professional experience in Data Engineering, specifically focused on SAP BI and Palantir Foundry.

• Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Technical Skills (Hard Skills)

• SAP BI Expert: Extensive hands-on experience with SAP BW. Proficiency in ABAP for ETL, HANA Calculation Views and AMDP script.

• Palantir Foundry Specialist: Proven track record of developing in Foundry (Data Connection, Code Repos, Pipeline Builder, Workshop).

• Coding: Advanced proficiency in Python (PySpark) and SQL.

• Agile: Strong understanding of Agile and SCRUM methodologies.

Soft Skills

• Team Player: Ability to thrive in a collaborative Agile team environment, sharing knowledge and supporting teammates to reach the Iteration Goals.

• Problem Solver: Analytical mindset capable of troubleshooting complex data discrepancies across hybrid systems.

• Communication: Fluent in English (daily working language). Spanish is a significant advantage for local site integration.

WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?

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