DATA ENGINEER (Data Science & Big Data Analytics)

Eurecat

Full-time Mathematical Science Occupations
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Location
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Posted
May 31, 2026

Job Description

Job description

You will join the Big Data & Data Science unit, a diverse team covering areas as varied as Computational Social Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Trustworthy AI. We are looking for an intelligent and curious data engineer to help us translate applied research into tangible products and prototypes,ย working on real European research projectsย alongside researchers, software engineers, and project managers.

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE JOB:


  • Design, build, and maintain data pipelines (batch and streaming) that ingest data from heterogeneous sources into data lakes and warehouses, including metadata and lineage tracking.ย 

  • Contribute to the development of federated query and discovery systems over distributed datasets (UNCAN.eu), working with engines such as Trino and integrating query optimizers compliant with privacy requirements.ย 

  • Contribute to the deployment of European data spaces (Deploy...