Founded in Switzerland in 1968 Zhlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner with engineering and innovation in our DNA. Were trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrows 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.
Important: To ensure a smooth review process please submit all application documents (CV cover letter) in English only.
The role
Zhlke is internationally recognized for expertise in developing Data Platforms and datadriven 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 organisations 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 youll make 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 nontechnical 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.
Whats important to us
- You have a university degree (ETH Uni FH) in computer science software engineering data science or a comparable education.
- At least 3 years in data or software engineering positions
- Experience of designing building and maintaining 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.
- Experience with a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake Data Mesh Data Warehouse streaming batch processing)
- Experience with Cloud Data Platforms like Databricks Microsoft Fabric or Amazon Sagemaker.
- Practical data programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Handson skills or a keen interest in such technologies as Apache Spark Airflow Kafka Kubernetes and Java Typescript or .NET.
- Handson experience with both relational and nonrelational 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 timeseries geospatial image etc..
- Experience with agile development and DevOps methodologies.
- 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 companys success in the previous year
- Global and Diverse Zhlke 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 yearend parties and other local festivities.
- Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. Were 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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How to Apply
Please remember all applications must be submitted in English only to be considered.
If you feel you dont 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.