Senior Data Engineer - Data Services

At Pleo, the Data Service team’s mission is to enable scalable, high-quality data infrastructure and analytics capabilities across the company. We build and maintain the foundations that empower teams to make trusted, data-informed decisions—efficiently and at scale.

As a Senior II Analytics Engineer in the Data Service team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the way data is modelled, consumed, and maintained across Pleo. You’ll own critical, cross-domain data models, mentor fellow analytics engineers, and work closely with both platform and business-facing teams to raise the bar for analytics engineering company-wide.

We are strong advocates for diversity at Pleo. The team at Pleo is made of people coming from different backgrounds. A Nordic-born company with women, men, aliens and shooting stars from Slovenians, South Africans to Danes and Canadians, in the office but also remotely throughout the world. We even sometimes travel together to explore!

You will thrive in this role if you

• Are passionate about building scalable, maintainable data infrastructure using modern tools like dbt, Looker, and BigQuery.
• Think strategically about data model design—balancing technical scalability with business usability.
• Are skilled at identifying opportunities to reduce complexity, eliminate manual work, and enable self-serve analytics.
• Bring a strong product mindset to data problems, and enjoy collaborating closely with analysts, engineers, and product managers.
• Want to influence how analytics engineering is practiced—through standards, tooling, mentoring, and thought partnership.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of cross-domain data models that support key business metrics and use cases.
• Partner with analysts and data engineers to translate business logic into performant, well-documented dbt models.
• Champion best practices in testing, documentation, CI/CD, and version control, and guide others in applying them.
• Act as a technical mentor to other analytics engineers, supporting their development and reviewing their code.
• Collaborate with central data platform and embedded teams to improve data quality, metric consistency, and lineage tracking.
• Drive alignment on model architecture across domains—ensuring models are reusable, auditable, and trusted.
• Identify and lead initiatives to reduce technical debt and modernise legacy reporting pipelines.
• Contribute to the long-term vision of analytics engineering at Pleo and help shape our roadmap for scalability and impact.

Your colleagues say you

• Work in English with ease (it's our company language)
• Bring a solution-centric mindset
• Are a continuous learner & systematic thinker
• Are a person they would also enjoy having a coffee with (virtual or not)

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 👶