Senior Business Operations Engineer

About the role

As a Business Operations Engineer you sit at the intersection of business data and technology and you use that vantage point to scale how the organization works. Your mission is to understand our business and its processes deeply identify where they can be made faster simpler and more reliable and deliver data-driven automated AI-powered solutions that raise productivity sharpen decision-making and drive operational excellence across the company.

This is a business-first deeply technical role. You combine a genuine understanding of how the business runs with strong engineering skills including data engineering programming and enough DevOps fluency to prepare your solutions for clean standardized handover to production.

This role is integrated in the BI team which sits within the Finance department.

Main responsibilities

The team member shall perform the present tasks inherent to such position including but not limited to the following:

• Partner with business teams to develop a deep understanding of their processes and to identify and scope high-impact transformation opportunities through AI and automation. Define the business problem success metrics feasibility risks and ROI.

• Map document and analyze the current processes systems and data flows across the existing tool landscape. Challenge existing processes and assumptions identify bottlenecks and propose new workflows and tooling that enable scalability and efficiency.

• Design and deliver new solutions end-to-end from proof of concept to production. Develop automation and AI-based systems such as intelligent routing workflow orchestration and AI agents running in production integrated with internal platforms via APIs and webhooks.

• Prepare and package solutions according to the standards of the DevOps team so they can be deployed and operated in a plug-and-play manner. This does not mean acting as a DevOps engineer but having a solid conceptual understanding of containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices so that what you build fits seamlessly into our operational standards.

• Establish quality performance and safety monitoring for all solutions including the LLM-powered agents running in production. Work closely with the AI team to ensure compliant usage of Agents. Create documentation runbooks and handovers to ensure sustainable operations.

• Design ingestion and transformation pipelines using dbt to support automation analytics and decision-making at scale.

• Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement by challenging the status quo and driving operational excellence through innovation and simplification.

What are we looking for

• Deep understanding of business processes with a strong process-mapping and optimization mindset focused on measurable efficiency gains and anticipation of edge cases and failure modes

• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java with strong SQL for automation data transformation and system integration

• Proven experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using dbt or similar frameworks

• Hands-on experience executing automations

• Practical experience with LLMs and AI agents including building and running agentic workflows in production and a habit of actively keeping up to date with the fast-evolving developments in the field

• Solid conceptual DevOps knowledge including containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes) and deployment practices sufficient to prepare solutions to the standards of a DevOps team for smooth standardized deployment

• Familiarity with integrating APIs and webhooks to automate cross-system workflows

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure

• Excellent collaboration stakeholder communication and ownership across technical and business teams and participates in code/design reviews

• A proactive and self-driven mindset with a passion for solving complex problems through simple scalable solutions understanding cost vs. performance tradeoffs

What do we offer

• Competitive annually reviewed compensation package

• Country vacation package that increases with your tenure

• Country specific benefits offering incl. private health care fitness and meal allowances

• Annual personal development budget to increase your impact

• Hybrid working mode plus up to 3 months of the year work from anywhere.

• All the best kit and tools to work effectively

• Annual in person all company event and celebration in Europe

• Working with an exceptional team doing some of the best work of your career

At Qualifyze we actively support the power of diversity uniting complementary talents and perspectives to address new challenges. Our collective strengths help us to find innovative solutions and turn difficulties into will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work fostering an inclusive environment where everyone belongs and feels heard.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds regardless of race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation marital status religion disability or age. Our hiring practices are rooted in fairness and respect and we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered.