Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of NN Group located in Madrid, Spain. We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units.

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist to join our team at NN and help us achieve our goal of becoming a socially responsible tech company that delivers digital products our customers love.

For the Data & AI department at NN Group IT, we are seeking an experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist who will help raise the data engineering capability across the organization. This role is a core team member of the Data Engineering Guild, driving standards, best practices and community enablement, and acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the DLP Data Engineering learning track.

The NN Data Engineering Guild consists of 270+ data engineers and data platform engineers spread across 10+ business units and countries.

Your impact as Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist

In this role, you will be a technical leader, coach and community builder for NN’s Data Engineering Guild — our global community of data engineers.

You will raise data-engineering maturity across a large, federated enterprise by defining best practices, fostering an engaged engineering community and driving adoption of common tools and platforms. By combining deep hands-on expertise with exceptional communication and coaching skills, you will help diverse teams deliver trusted, scalable and well-governed data products more efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Define and drive data-engineering standards and best practices, establishing robust engineering guardrails adopted by teams across business units.
• Organize and facilitate Guild events such as meetups, tech talks, office hours and hackathons.
• Serve as a visible champion for shared success, encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams.
• Evangelize reusable engineering patterns, platform capabilities and shared assets.
• Own and continuously improve NN’s Data Engineering learning track, part of its internal Data Literacy Program.
• Keep the curriculum up to date, relevant and engaging, including exercises and assessments.
• Deliver training workshops and onboarding programmes for new and experienced data engineers.
• Act as a coach and mentor, helping engineers across all business units advance their skills.
• Develop clear documentation, guidelines, FAQs and playbooks, keeping knowledge assets accessible and current.
• Represent Data Engineering in cross-domain forums and communities of practice, including Data Science, Architecture and Engineering.
• Work closely with data-engineering teams in different business units and the central Data Platform team to align on best practices and standards.

The team you’ll join

You will be part of the Data & AI enablement ecosystem, working across the organization to strengthen data-engineering capabilities.

You will collaborate closely with DLP stakeholders and the Data Engineering Guild core team to drive standards, community engagement and adoption. NN values teamwork, knowledge-sharing and continuous learning, and actively encourages innovation and personal development.

What NN offers

• Hybrid work model.
• Financial support to equip your home workspace.
• Allowance and telework subsidies.
• Flexible working hours and two months of intensive summer working hours.
• Life insurance and pension plan.
• Performance-based objectives bonus.
• Free parking for cars, motorcycles, electric cars with chargers and bikes.
• Flexible compensation, including transport card, nursery checks, Sanitas health insurance and training.
• Volunteering opportunities and time for employees to contribute to society.
• Wellness programme.
• An Agile, technology-focused work environment.

Who you are

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent level of experience.
• You have 5+ years of experience in data engineering and/or data-platform development in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• You have strong hands-on experience with lakehouse/data-platform technologies — Databricks is preferred — and modern data-engineering practices.
• You understand lakehouse architectures, data modelling, including medallion patterns, ingestion and transformation patterns, and data-quality concepts.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile environment and can drive initiatives through influence rather than formal authority.
• You communicate clearly, facilitate groups confidently and can adapt your message to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have a strong enablement mindset and enjoy coaching others, designing learning experiences and growing an engineering community.

Nice to have

• Experience building or running internal enablement programmes, academies, learning tracks, communities of practice or guilds.
• Relevant certifications, such as Databricks Data Engineer, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Experience in an enablement-focused setup, such as a Centre of Excellence, platform team or federated operating model.

If you are a passionate and experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist looking for an exciting opportunity in a dynamic and challenging environment, NN would love to hear from you.