Senior Data Engineer

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. 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.

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 organisations to problems of global significance.

As a Senior Data Engineer you will play a central role in designing implementing and maintaining robust data pipelines ensuring they are both technically excellent and business-driven. With strong hands-on Python engineering skills you will translate complex requirements into scalable reproducible solutions that empower our clients with actionable insights.

How youll make impact

• Serve as a trusted advisor guiding clients towards effective technical solutions to their data challenges.

• Design develop and optimize distributed data processing pipelines with Python at the core.

• Apply software engineering best practices in Pythonincluding testing modularity code reviews and documentationto build maintainable solutions.

• Create high-quality reproducible datasets from diverse data sources in a scalable way.

• Collaborate seamlessly with Architects Software Engineers and Data Scientists to deliver integrated solutions.

• Understand the requirements of different producers and consumers of data services tailoring outputs to their needs.

• Deliver iteratively in an Agile environment ensuring value from data is realized early and often.

• Stay sharp technically continuously learning and applying new concepts and technologies.

Whats important to us

• You have a university degree in computer science software engineering data science or a compa-rable 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.
• Hands-on skills or a keen interest in such technologies as Apache Spark Airflow Kafka Kubernetes and Java Typescript .
• 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 da-ta volumes.
• Practical knowledge of handling varied types of structured and unstructured data (text tabular graph time-series geospatial image etc.).
• Experience with agile development and DevOps methodologies.
• Fluency in 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 Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 17 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. 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.

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.