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Wien, Österreich
Hybrid
Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.
If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.
The role
Zühlke is internationally recognized for expertise in developing Data Platforms and data-driven solutions for customers in many different industries. We are investing heavily in global growth in AI & Data. We believe that Data will have a positive impact on our society and environment. Data allows us to address urgent yet unsolved problems in a broad range of fields, from specific applications within organizations to problems of global significance.
As an Advanced Data Engineer, you are a key player in designing, implementing, and maintaining data pipelines. You work closely with clients to understand their data needs and realise tailored solutions that drive business insights. Your technical expertise and strong methodology help you bring your projects and clients to success.
How you’ll make an impact
Being a trusted advisor, guiding our customers towards a successful technical solution to their data challenges.
Communicating the “what”, “why” and “how” of proposed solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Developing, testing, and monitoring distributed data processing pipelines.
Extrapolating versatile data sets and sources to produce high quality, reproducible datasets in a scalable and maintainable way.
Collaborating with other data roles such as Architects, Software Engineers, and Data Scientists with ease.
Understanding the needs of many types of producers and consumers for our data services, ensuring our products meet their requirements.
Delivering projects in an agile way, building iteratively to produce value from data early and frequently.
Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new concepts and technologies.
What’s important to us
You have a university degree (Uni, FH) in computer science, software engineering, data science, or a comparable education.
At least 3 years in data or software engineering positions
Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high quality productive data products that meet the needs of data consumers.
An understanding of common approaches to data analysis, data visualization, and optionally data science so you can produce the right data for data consumers.
Foundational knowledge of a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Medallion, Data Products, streaming, batch processing)
Experience with Cloud Data Platforms like Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake or Amazon Sagemaker.
Hands-on skills or a keen interest in technologies as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, FastAPI, and/or programming languages (Python, Scala, SQL, R).
Hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
Familiarity with big data infrastructures and concepts for storing and processing large and/or heterogeneous data volumes.
Practical knowledge of handling varied types of structured and unstructured data (text, tabular, graph, time-series, geospatial, image, etc.).
Experience with agile development, DevOps methodologies and AI-augmented software engineering.
Fluency in both German and English is required for this position.
What we offer
Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year
Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.
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If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!
We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.