Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Eurowings Digital's Data Engineering team and play a critical role in transforming raw data into high-quality assets for reporting, analytics, and advanced data products. You will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, contribute to a cloud-based data platform (Azure and Databricks), collaborate with data analysts and scientists, and champion best practices in DataOps. This role requires 7+ years of data engineering experience, expertise in Scala or Python with strong SQL and Spark skills, and experience with cloud-native architectures (Azure). The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, a strong focus on data quality, and the ability to manage stakeholders. Eurowings Digital offers a remote-first hybrid working model within Germany, along with various benefits including extensive vacation time, employee discounts, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, ideally with some hands-on exposure to analytics engineering practices (e.g., data modeling, transformation logic)
• Deep understanding of data pipeline orchestration, distributed processing, and building resilient, testable ETL/ELT systems
• Expertise in Scala or Python with strong SQL skills and experience using Spark in production environments
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, especially Azure Cloud Platform and Databricks
• Familiarity with streaming data frameworks (Kafka, Event Hubs, or similar)
• Solid grasp of data modeling concepts, especially in the context of analytics and reporting (conceptual/logical/physical models)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and future ML use cases
• Contribute to our modern cloud-based data platform in Azure and Databricks
• Collaborate closely with Data Analysts and Data Scientists to co-create data products
• Support and contribute to our internal data platform alongside our Data Platform Engineer
• Continuously improve data quality, documentation, and performance
• Champion best practices in DataOps: CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, testing, and infrastructure-as-code

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaboration mindset to work effectively with cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, and business units
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on data quality, accuracy, and reliability
• Skilled in stakeholder management, capable of balancing business needs with technical feasibility
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills and the ability to drive initiatives from concept to completion

Benefits

• Fly with friends and family around the world by using the entire Lufthansa and partner network
• Discover the world within 30 vacation days a year + two days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve
• Get discounts across a large range of brands (e.g. Telekom, Zalando, Apple, Sixt, Bosch…)
• With "Joblunch" from Belonio, Eurowings Digital finances up to 2 EUR of your lunch on working days!
• Evolve professionally in our agile environment by taking part in challenging projects with cutting edge technologies and a lot of personal responsibility
• Shape your career growth through regular discussions with your Team Lead and 360° feedbacks from your colleagues
• Work in a cross functional team where you gain/share knowledge every day and on regular talks like “Peer School” or “Ask the Expert”
• Every year you will get a training budget for meetups, conferences, trainings, coaching
• You can improve your (German) language skills through our online courses
• With your Linkedin Learning account you access plenty of additional trainings and courses
• Remote first set up (within Germany) : We believe in a hybrid working model with a remote-first approach. This means that our company is optimized for work to be done remotely no matter where you are living in Germany. We believe in flexibility and trusted working times, so there is no standardized “quota” for on-site presence in the office. On average, our employees that lives all across Germany comes to our Cologne office 1-2 times per month for team bonding and/or selected events (i.e. for onboarding, team/company events/workshops)
• Relocation package and personalized support (e.g. for Visa or Work Permit) will be offered for you and your family if needed