Advanced Data Engineer
Zühlke Group2 months ago
Vienna, AustriaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Advise customers and guide them toward successful technical solutions for data challenges.
- Explain the what, why, and how of proposed data solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Develop, test, monitor, and maintain distributed data processing pipelines.
- Combine varied data sets and sources into high-quality, reproducible, scalable, and maintainable datasets.
- Collaborate with Data Architects, Software Engineers, and Data Scientists.
- Understand data producer and consumer needs and ensure data products meet their requirements.
- Deliver projects iteratively using agile development practices.
- Maintain technical knowledge and learn new concepts and technologies.
Requirements
- University degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, or comparable education.
- At least 3 years of experience in data or software engineering positions.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality data products for data consumers.
- Understanding of data analysis and data visualization approaches, with optional data science knowledge.
- Foundational knowledge of data architectures including Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Medallion, Data Products, streaming, and batch processing.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or Amazon Sagemaker.
- Hands-on skills or interest in Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, FastAPI, Python, Scala, SQL, and/or R.
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Familiarity with big data infrastructures and approaches for storing and processing large or heterogeneous data volumes.
- Practical experience handling structured and unstructured data including text, tabular, graph, time-series, geospatial, and image data.
- Experience with agile development, DevOps methodologies, and AI-augmented software engineering.
- Fluency in German and English.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home.
- Profit share scheme in addition to annual salary, based on company success.
- Global and diverse community spanning 16 offices, with annual team camps, year-end parties, and local festivities.
- Investment in employee development and support for building skills for personal and client impact.
- Safe, healthy, positive, and inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Zühlke Group
Zühlke Group provides technology consulting, product engineering, and digital solutions for enterprises, especially in regulated sectors such as healthcare and finance. It builds custom software, connected devices, and data-driven services, and supports clients from strategy through implementation and operations. Founded in Switzerland in 1968 and headquartered in Schlieren, Zurich, the firm is partner-owned, operates across Europe and Asia, and also invests in startups via Zühlke Ventures.