Analytics Engineer – Full Overview

Location: Amsterdam

Start date: August-September 2026

Length: 6-month contract (initial), part of a broader analytics transformation programme

Engagement type: Contract | GCP / Databricks / dbt stack | 6 months

Role Summary
An Analytics Engineer joining the Analytics programme, building and maintaining data transformation pipelines that feed reporting and analytics across the business. This sits within a broader initiative rebuilding the analytics foundation and BI capability from the ground up – the trusted data layer feeding dashboards, self-service analytics, and eventually conversational/AI-enabled analytics.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain dbt models on top of the Databricks/GCP data stack
• Write clean, tested, well-documented SQL transformations
• Collaborate with Senior Analytics Engineers and BI Developers to deliver reliable, analysis-ready datasets
• Troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues within existing pipelines
• Support ad hoc data requests from BI and business stakeholders during the programme rollout

Requirements

• Solid working experience with dbt and modern SQL-based transformation workflows
• Experience with Databricks and/or BigQuery (GCP data stack)
• Strong SQL skills; comfortable working with large, complex datasets
• Understanding of data modelling fundamentals
• Python experience a plus
• Fluent English; Dutch a plus but not required

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Alfie Jefford