Data Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Data Engineer in Frankfurt, Germany (remote with occasional travel). This permanent/contract position requires fluency in German and English and is open to candidates based in Germany. You will collaborate with stakeholders, design and develop data models, implement data engineering practices, and work with architects to integrate data engineering into the overall platform architecture. The role demands experience in various data architecture and engineering roles, hands-on experience with relational, dimensional, and analytic technologies, and knowledge of specific tools and platforms. Success in this role requires strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience in various data architecture and engineering roles within data & analytics
• 3+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols)
• Experience with data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise big data platforms in multi-data-center contexts required
• Must be a Fluent German and English speaker
• Candidate must be based in Germany

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and document data requirements, business rules, and objectives for the data platform
• Design and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models that accurately represent the organization's data assets and support its business needs
• Ensure designs meet documented objectives for reliability, scalability, supportability, user experience, security, governance, performance and more
• Implement data engineering practices, including normalization, denormalization, and indexing, to ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability
• Work closely with architects to integrate data engineering into the overall platform architecture, ensuring efficient data processing and storage
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to present and explain data engineering, design decisions, and recommendations
• Implement business and IT data requirements through new data strategies and designs across all data platforms (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL) and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, and machine learning)
• Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization
• Hands-on modeling, design, configuration, installation, performance tuning, and sandbox POC
• Ensuring that data are modelled and processed according to architecture and requirements both functional and non-functional
• Understanding and implementing required development guidelines, design standards and best practices
• Delivering right solution architecture, automation and technology choices
• Working cross-functionally with enterprise architects, information security teams, and platform teams
• Suggesting and implementing architecture improvements

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of Sagemaker/Jupyter, and data lake