Your Role

• Define technical strategies, architecture, and roadmaps for projects and standardized tooling considering scalability, maintainability, and performance

• Collaborate with stakeholders (data owner, product owner, project manager, KGP stream leads and members, etc.) to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Oversees the design, development, and maintenance of complex data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and security

• Provide technical direction and leadership to a team of data engineers

• Work closely with the product owner, senior data engineer and project manager to ensure timely delivery of features and releases

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, perform code reviews, and enforce coding standards and best practices

• Identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and technical challenges and find solutions to mitigate them

• Lead technical research, proof of concepts (POC), and prototyping to assess new tools or solutions

• Leading a team (3-5) of Data Engineers of different levels in different locations

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 3-5 years of proven experience as a senior data engineer or technical lead, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software products, including working with large-scale data processing and management systems

• At least 1 year experience leading a team technically

• Strong background in system architecture, software design patterns, and software engineering best practices

• Strong experience Cloud Computing and with Python, Databricks, SQL, Pyspark as well as DevOps implementation (Azure Devops, Jenkins)

• Experience in design and implementation of complex data pipelines by following and ensuring industry standards and best practices

• Extensive experience in clean, maintainable, and efficient code development

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Fluent English is a must, German language skills are welcome

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