Meridia is an AgTech company specializing in field data within complex smallholder-heavy agri-commodity supply chains such as cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, and soy.
The Lead Data Engineer will serve as a senior technical expert responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing complex data engineering solutions while mentoring junior data engineers.
This role involves leading the development of scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that power Meridia's SaaS products, ensuring high-quality data processing for global, multinational business customers.
The position is based in Indonesia and requires close collaboration with teams in The Netherlands and colleagues across Indonesia, reporting to the Data Manager in Indonesia.
Requirements:
The candidate should have 8+ years of experience in data and at least 5 years of experience building data pipelines.
Expertise in building, optimizing, and maintaining scalable ETL/data pipelines, especially for large and complex geospatial datasets, using modern orchestration and workflow tools such as Apache Airflow is required.
Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform) with hands-on experience architecting data storage, transformation, and metadata solutions in a secure and cost-effective manner is essential.
Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with experience designing relational and NoSQL databases to support data integrity, interoperability, and analytics use cases are necessary.
The candidate must be skilled in Python and relevant data engineering frameworks (e.g., Pandas, PySpark, DBT) for automating data ingestion, cleaning, standardization, and geospatial transformation.
A solid understanding of data governance and best practices in version control (e.g., Git), documentation, data quality assurance, reproducibility, and collaboration in cross-functional data teams is required.
The ideal candidate should have a deep curiosity for solving real-world problems in agriculture, sustainability, and supply chain transparency, with a mission-driven mindset aligned with Meridia’s purpose.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills are necessary to explain technical data concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across cultures and disciplines.
Full working proficiency in English is required.
Benefits:
The position offers a market rate salary commensurate with skills and competencies.
Employees will enjoy a four-day work week.
This is a remote working position.
Employees will be part of a fast-growing impact venture with an informal, professional work culture.
A laptop and an external monitor will be provided for work.
There is an annual employee-led Learning & Development budget.
Employees will engage with team members, clients, and users in various other countries.
