Data Engineer (Madrid, Spain)

Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Unit8 is a fast-growing Swiss AI and data analytics consulting and services company dedicated to solving complex problems of traditional industries like automotive, chemical, financial services, manufacturing and pharma. We work with some of the biggest organisations in Europe to solve the challenges that directly affect their business - be it operations, finance, manufacturing or R&D. Since our foundation, we have successfully delivered more than 200 projects and have grown to 150+ talented individuals across 6 office locations.

Unit8’s mission is to drive the adoption of AI and Data Science in the non-digital industries and to help accelerate their digital transformation. Among its activities, Unit8 dedicates a part of its resources and time on projects that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and “engineering for good” causes. You can learn more about what we are passionate about at  and on our  you can find more useful information about our business and recruiting process.

These are some examples of projects that we have been working on

• Building a real-time production line monitoring system for the pharmaceutical industry to improve manufacturing throughput. Technologies: AWS, EKS, CloudFormation, Docker, Python
• Building system for calculating and delivering global climate scores i.e. estimating the impact of climate change on the risk of natural disasters (i.e. floods, wildfires & droughts) for the Insurance Industry. Technologies: PySpark, Python, Proprietary Data Processing Platform
• Building a modern data science platform including a data lake for Chemical Industry. Technologies: Azure, ML Studio, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark

What You’ll Do

Unit8 is growing at a fast pace and your role can evolve and will depend on our clients’ challenges. As a member of agile project teams, your mission will be to build solutions and infrastructure aiming at solving business problems of our clients.

In general, you will:

• Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot data pipelines and processing systems that are relied on for both production and analytics applications, using variety of open-source and closed-source technologies .
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality.
• Collaborate with other software engineers, ML experts and stakeholders, taking learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
• Work in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.
• Interact with our clients to understand their data-related challenges and related tech and business questions they need to answer

About you

As a member of agile project teams, your mission will be to build solutions and infrastructure aiming at solving the business problems of our clients.

• You are a proficient software engineer who knows the fundamentals of computer science and you master at least one widely adopted programming language (Python, Java, C#, C++).
• You know how to write distributed services and work with high-volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Spark.
• You understand the value of teamwork.
• You have strong client-facing skills: comfortable interacting with clients (business & technical audience), deliver presentations, problem-solving mindset.
• You are customer-focused and you have a service-oriented mindset.
• You are able to quickly identify and prioritise business challenges and provide innovative and relevant solutions, either during an ongoing client project or in business development activities
• You are self-driven, can do attitude, fast learner, ready to face challenges as they arise
• An ideal candidate is fluent in English (mandatory)
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 15-20% of time

What We Offer

• Opportunity to contribute to the growth of one of the leading Swiss data & AI consultancies

• Chance to establish and grow Unit8’s footprint in Spain
• Work on cutting-edge data & AI topics
• Cross offices/ company wide frequent events like off-sites
• Since we do not yet have an office established in Madrid, the initial months will be fully remote. However, our long-term goal is to transition to a hybrid working model (2 days from the office or more).
• Flexible working hours
• Dedicated budget for training