Senior Data Engineer

About ApprovalMax ApprovalMax is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company that helps businesses automate their approval workflows and financial controls. With a global team of over 100 people spanning the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and South Africa, we build software that matters and we're scaling quickly. The Role Reporting to the Data Platform Lead, you will be a hands-on senior engineer responsible for building and maintaining ApprovalMax 's enterprise data platform. You will own the design and delivery of production-grade data pipelines, drive engineering quality across the data stack, and act as a technical mentor for the broader analytics team. As we mature our hub-and-spoke model, you will be a key partner to embedded analysts and a core contributor to making the platform agentic-ready and self-service by default. This is a senior individual contributor role: deep technical work, broad influence, no direct reports. Remote — applicants must be based in the UK, Serbia or Moldova. Key Responsibilities Pipeline Development & Platform Engineering Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines, ingestion processes, and transformation layers on Azure Data Lake Gen2 + Databricks. Own the implementation of core data models in dbt: from source-aligned staging through to marts and semantic layers consumed by Power BI, Amplitude, and downstream tools. Write production-grade Python for orchestration, custom ingestion, and data transformation logic; treat pipeline code with the same rigour as application code. Investigate and resolve pipeline failures within agreed SLAs; lead root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes rather than one-off patches. Optimise pipeline performance and Databricks compute usage; surface cost and performance opportunities to the Data Platform Lead. Data Quality, Testing & Observability Implement and maintain data quality frameworks (dbt tests, Great Expectations, or equivalent) across the platform; ensure critical data assets have expli