Principal Data Scientist

Permanent employee, Full-time · Oficina Plaza España, Híbrido

About this role

Your mission?

Turn our rich operational and product telemetry into trustworthy, timely, secure, and business-ready data. Build the semantic layer and pipelines that power GTM, Product, Operations, and Partner Success—so decisions are faster, experiments are rigorous, and growth is compounding.


The role


What are we looking for?
We’re hiring a Principal Data Scientist / Developer—part architect, part builder, part strategist—to own our end-to-end data foundation and accelerate impact from insights to shipped improvements.

You’ll partner with Product and Engineering leads to design the next-gen data platform (batch and streaming), define metrics and contracts, and ship models (analytics, ML, and LLM-assisted) that lift activation, expansion, and reliability.

Reporting to the COO, you’ll work hands-on while coaching others, translating business questions into robust, production-grade data products. This role is based in Madrid, Spain, with a hybrid work model.

This isn’t about dashboards alone—it’s about building the engines that move the business.


What you’ll own and drive

  • End-to-end data infrastructure: From ingestion to orchestration to serving (batch/stream), optimizing cost, reliability, and speed.

  • Data quality, integrity, and availability: CI/CD for data, contracts, tests, and observability as first-class citizens.

  • Pipelines & processes: Design/optimize ingestion, transformation, and analysis workflows for structured and unstructured data.

  • Insights to action: Partner with GTM, Product, Operations, and Partner Success to prioritize questions, run experiments, and land changes.

  • Models & semantics: Own core metrics, semantic layers, reporting models, and feature stores aligned to the partner funnel (SQL→MQL→SQL→ARR).

  • Governance & collaboration: Lineage, catalog, permissions, and clear documentation so teams can self-serve safely and confidently.

Day-to-day tasks

  • Design/optimize pipelines (ingestion, transformation, orchestration).

  • Develop and maintain analytical and ML/LLM models (structured/unstructured; stats/experimentation).

  • Implement/improve dashboards (Dash/Plotly, Power BI, Tableau, Looker).

  • Analyze trends/patterns to improve processes, product, and the partner funnel.

  • Data modeling (dimensional, lakehouse, feature stores).

  • Data quality & observability (detect/fix inconsistencies).

  • Coordinate accessibility & usability (catalog, lineage, permissions).

  • Automate extraction/transformations, data testing, and deployment.

  • Document best practices, standards, and methodologies.


Tooling you’ll use
Linux, bash, Git, Containerization; SQL/NoSQL; Flask/FastAPI for APIs; Data stack: Pandas, scikit-learn, Polars, DuckDB; DL stack: PyTorch, HuggingFace, TensorFlow; Dash/Plotly/Power BI; Slack; Microsoft O365; Jira; Confluence; Cloud platforms & data services.


What will make us fall in love with you as a candidate?

It will be a perfect match if…

  • You are proactive. You spot data gaps early and propose scalable solutions without waiting for direction.

  • You prioritize clarity over clutter. You define crisp metrics and contracts, and make complex systems understandable.

  • You rock in strategic storytelling. You turn analysis into compelling narratives that move execs and engineers to act.

  • You are brave & creative. You experiment fast, embrace feedback, and solve problems others deem “too technical” or “too messy.”

  • You simplify the complex. You design data models and APIs that make cloud workflows intuitive for partners and internal teams.

  • Ownership. You can lead the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to models to serving and observability—hands-on and end-to-end.

  • You love being the bridge between tech and business. You translate questions into analysis, and insights into shipped changes.

  • For you, user and business impact go first. You champion data integrity and responsible AI to improve real outcomes.

  • Trust. You give and receive feedback thoughtfully, with the intent to build, and you lead with transparency.


Requirements that are important for us

Please, only apply if you match these.

  • A principal level: 8+ years across Data Science/Analytics/Engineering (including leading initiatives), with shipped data products and measurable business impact.

  • Mastery of data tooling: Python (preferred) and/or R; SQL & NoSQL; visualization (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Dash/Plotly); ML/LLM/stats; cloud data services. You use AI responsibly to speed up quality work.

  • English skills: Intermediate level required — Level B1 minimum (B2+ is a plus) to collaborate with international teams.


Data

  • SQL & NoSQL excellence: Schema design, performance tuning, partitioning, indexing.

  • ETL/ELT & orchestration: Reliable pipelines (batch/stream) with monitoring, alerting, and recovery.

  • Modeling: Dimensional modeling, lakehouse patterns, and feature stores that serve analytics and ML.

  • ML/LLM & experimentation: From baseline models to rigorous A/B tests and causal inference on structured/unstructured data.

  • Visualization: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, and Dash/Plotly for decision-ready views.

  • Observability & governance: Data tests, lineage, contracts, catalogs, and CI/CD for data.

  • Quality by design: Freshness, completeness, accuracy, and SLAs as non-negotiables.


Engineering

  • System design & architecture: Comfortable with monoliths, microservices, and event-driven patterns.

  • APIs & services: Build/consume services with Flask/FastAPI; productionize models and data apps.

  • Cloud & data services: Practical fluency with cloud storage/compute and managed data offerings.

  • Core stack: Python, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB, scikit-learn; DL with PyTorch/TensorFlow/HuggingFace.

  • DevX: Linux, bash, Git, containerization; automation, testing, and CI/CD for code and data.

  • Security-minded: Design with least privilege, encryption, and secure defaults.


Security & Compliance
The Data Analytics team ensures secure and responsible data use in line with ISO 27001, ENS, and HDS—protecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability.


We anonymize and encrypt where applicable, enforce access controls, uphold data quality, and ensure that analysis tools/platforms are compliant. You’ll work closely with our Security team to bake this into architecture and day-to-day operations.

About us

Who exactly are we?

Our story is the one of a group of Cloud and technology enthusiasts who always had a clear goal: make things much easier for tech companies. Since no one was really stepping up to fill that gap in Spain’s Cloud sector, we figured—why not build our own product?

We started small, and now we’re over 130 people and still growing. Today, Jotelulu’s products are used in thousands of offices and businesses in retail, construction, industry, hospitality, transportation, and more, across over 8 countries in Europe and the Americas.

Every step we take is driven by the desire to do things better, bring something new, and shake things up—because that’s the only way innovation truly has meaning.


What are we up to these days?

After years of growing and iterating on our platform, we’re at a pivotal moment. Jotelulu powers products like Servers, Remote Desktop, DRaaS, File/Object Storage and our Marketplace—and we are moving fast towards a all-in-one platform for IT companies.

We grow 100% through channel and technical communities (sysadmins/MSPs/integrators). We are present across Spain, Portugal, France, and Mexico—new markets opening soon.


Life at Jotelulu

We’re passionate about technology, but we’re also a bit geeky — we love Star Wars, video games, 90s movies, and pop culture.

We work hard and with passion, but we also have a great time together. At Jotelulu, you’ll find a balance between work and fun, where teammates often become friends, and boredom is rare — there’s always something new, unexpected, and memorable happening.


Videos behind the scenes

Our own version of Nintendo NES.

Our own version of Nintendo NES

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This is how we roll at events!

This is how we roll at events!

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Our own event, the SUMMIT

Our own event, the SUMMIT

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Who will you be working with?

You’ll be part of a team of over 130 people, but you’ll work especially closely with Data/Analytics, Platform/Infra, Product, GTM (Sales & Marketing), and Partner Success — true wizards at simplifying complex problems and making things happen.



What we offer?

An environment free of bureaucracy and corporate constraints; a culture where your opinion is highly valued and appreciated.

Flexibility: a great work-life balance.

An opportunity for personal and professional growth, supported by high functioning teams and the exciting challenges that come with joining a company at the start of its growth trajectory.

An inclusive and upbeat work environment: leave your suit behind... we’re a t-shirt and sneakers kind of place! More importantly, our company culture promotes diversity and inclusion. The personality and opinions of each of our team members are important and valid, and we aim to offer all employees a safe environment where they can be themselves and thrive.

Professional development

Health care: we hope you won't need it, but just in case, we provide you access to the best medical network.

Feedback and transparent culture: feedback is the breakfast of champions, and we take it seriously. We have a real-time and honest feedback culture, with monthly formal 1:1 sessions with your manager, a performance evaluation plan (with semestral evaluations) and monthly all-hands meetings to understand all the business information you need!


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