Staff Data Engineer - Data Services

Intro

At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays — we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.

Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.

About the role

We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Services team at Pleo. In this role, you’ll help design and scale our data warehouse, enable trusted self-serve analytics, and shape how we structure and govern data across the company. You’ll be at the heart of building data products and core models that are maintainable, reusable, and built to last.

As a Staff-level engineer, you’ll be expected to work across domains, lead technical design discussions, and help align teams around scalable solutions and shared logic. You’ll bring clarity to complex problems, drive long-term improvements in our data architecture, and mentor others in growing their craft.

If you're excited about shaping how data is modelled and used across a fast-growing, product-led company and passionate about raising the bar for clarity, reusability, and long-term quality in a warehouse environment — this might be the perfect next step for you.

What you’ll be doing

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will:

• Design and lead implementation of scalable data pipelines and dbt models across key domains
• Own and evolve our data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, clarity, and reusability
• Translate complex business logic into clean, tested, and trusted models used company-wide
• Partner with analytics engineers, analysts, and platform teams to raise the bar for data quality and modeling
• Help define the future of our semantic layer, testing strategy, and platform workflows
• Be a go-to technical leader—bringing alignment and clarity to complex data challenges

What you bring

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• Deep experience with the modern data stack, especially dbt, BigQuery, and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt Cloud)
• Proven ability to design end-to-end data architecture—from ingestion to warehouse modeling to semantic layers—not just implement someone else’s plan
• A strong understanding of data modeling and platform trade-offs, and the ability to drive architectural decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term scalability
• A track record of working across domains to align stakeholders on shared definitions, model ownership, and reuse
• A proactive mindset when it comes to data quality, governance, and system design—you raise the bar and help others do the same
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to operate as a technical partner to analytics, engineering, and product leaders
  
  

Who you’ll be working with and reporting to

You’ll report to our Data Analytics Lead (Data Services) and work closely with our Data Infrastructure team, Analytics Engineers, and domain teams in Product, Finance, and GTM. Our team is collaborative and focused on long-term quality—we’re working to raise the bar for how data is modelled and consumed across the company.

How you’ll develop in this role

In your first few months at Pleo, you’ll:

• Lead the consolidation and redesign of our core models across key domains
• Drive improvements to our testing framework and developer workflow for analytics engineers
• Partner with embedded teams to align on shared logic and reusable definitions
• Identify platform-level bottlenecks and propose scalable architecture improvements

We’re committed to helping you develop your career—whether that means growing into broader technical leadership, defining strategy for our semantic layer, or mentoring the next wave of engineers joining the team.

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with  your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously 
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶