data engineer

Join our team!

KBC Group, the parent company of the Hungarian K&H Bank, is a leading European financial group with a focus on providing bank-insurance products and services to retail, private banking, SME and mid-cap clients, in our core countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.

The KBC Services and Infrastructure division (SIN) decided on a nearshore HR strategy based on 2 locations: the core internal workforce is based in Belgium and in Hungary. Therefore not only our services are international, but also our teams.

Our responsibilities range from day-to-day operation to application development and its operation.

We are constantly expanding the Hungarian side of the team, which is why we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated new employees with junior, medior or possibly senior work experience.

Passionate about Big Data and cloud computing? Then keep reading, you've come to the right place.

Our Data and Services train is building and hosting a bigdata platform.  Currently on-prem with a Hadoop cluster but we are migrating this on-prem platform to Amazon Web Services by the end of 2023.  For an ambitious plan we need ambitious people.

As a big data cloud engineer, you are responsible for the engineering and integration of frameworks and toolings used by data engineers.

We need you to capture the business requirements and translate them in a coherent design.  From functional requirements, doing a technical design and implementation.  Ensuring all pieces fit into each other over the different products in our catalog.

What you can expect working with us:

• You can make sure your future career is steady within our company
• Life-long learning and plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself
• Competitive salary as well as other benefits such as:
• 10% customizable cafeteria,
• annual performance-based reward,
• company phone with mobile internet, that you can use for private purposes as well
• employee discount at the bank
• Medicover
• Your English language skills won’t be worn out as you can use it on a daily basis
• Flexible schedule as we don’t use ‘Clock in Clock out’ system
• As our focus is on teamwork we consider it important to hang out in the "open office" together, but you have the option to spend 3 days per week working from home
• We value your insight and are always open to suggestions
• International environment with a cheerful work atmosphere
• Green office in Millennium Park, equipped with:
• bicycle storage and showers
• restaurant with panoramic views over the Danube and the National Theatre
• free coffee and snacks in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and have many other dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from You: 

• 5+ years relevant experience
• strong background on cloud computing in general, and AWS specifically
• strong will to learn new technologies, services and concepts
• knowledge on the following services as those play a pivotal role in the design, setup, maintenance and integration of the platform:
• Kubernetes
• Apache Airflow
• Python programming
• Apache Spark
• AWS Lambda (python)
• AWS S3
• Data management tooling
• AWS CICD tooling
• Terraform
• Cognito
• Data access control

• analytical mindset to select and apply the right technological service to solve problems
• substantial hands-on expertise in a broad range of software development and programming fields (Java, Python, optionally Scala)
• good verbal and written communication skill in English
• an ability to work in a highly dynamic environment

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a two-round interview process, one online in English with the Belgian team leader and a technical lead, and the other at our office in Budapest (in Hungarian) to get to know each other better
• An efficient selection process is important for both of us, so we try to make it as fast as possible, and even if you are not selected we will give you a detailed feedback.