Job
- Level
- Lead
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Data, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you design and build scalable data pipelines and systems, optimize their performance, mentor other engineers, and develop innovative approaches to utilize data in large-scale production environments.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Principal Data Engineer in ZMS, your role involves guiding the direction and architecting and modelling the data-intensive systems and services, serving high-volume data to Partners, engineering teams, and internal users.
- We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer with hands-on experience in building data pipelines and systems, focusing on efficiency, reusability and performance optimisation.
- As a Principal Data Engineer within ZMS, you will get the opportunity to lead a new approach for building data products and the underlying data platform from the early stages together with your team.
- You will work in a welcoming and inclusive organisation of data engineers, software engineers and business analysts.
- You will communicate frequently with your team's multiple and various stakeholders to understand and react to their needs in order to raise the data capabilities of all of ZMS.
- Design, build, and maintain large-scale data intensive systems and services to be served to multiple stakeholders in various ways.
- Ensure the implementation of a state-of-the-art software development methodology and cultivate best practices in software development.
- Operate a complex and advanced system landscape that meets the highest standards in terms of reliability, performance, and latency.
- Developing new approaches to data storage, evaluation, ongoing maintenance, and best practices that will be useful across the entire company, including with structured and unstructured data.
- Mentor junior to senior engineers and actively collaborate with other teams.
- Share knowledge and expertise within our talented engineering and science community.
- Work closely with data and software engineering leaders, product managers, designers, partners, third-party providers, and other business stakeholders to bring our state-of-the-art solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.
- As part of our Principal Engineering Community, you collaborate with other senior individual contributors to set engineering standards, guide decision-making for the technology landscape at Zalando via our Tech Radar.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Expertise in developing data models and data pipelines for batch and stream processing using AWS services, Databricks, Airflow, and similar technologies.
- Expertise in the design and development of resilient, scalable distributed systems in cloud infrastructure, with a preference for proficiency in Kubernetes and AWS.
- Excellent software engineering skills to design and implement effective solutions for data strategies in large-scale production environments (data engineering, data version control).
- You excel at and are enthusiastic about both delivering projects hands-on and leading development efforts.
- A strong advocate for operational excellence and adherence to coding best practices, including clean code, readability, combined with strong business acumen.
Experience
- 10+ years of in-depth experience in developing applications consisting of multiple modules managed by multiple teams.
- Databricks experience and solid programming skills are a must.
- Starke Kommunikationsfähigkeiten und Erfahrung in der Leitung bereichsübergreifender Zusammenarbeit, mit der Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft, den Geschäftskontext, in dem das Team arbeitet, sowie die Kundenprobleme, die gelöst werden, zu verstehen.
- Experience coaching and mentoring data engineers.
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What we offer
- Zalando offers a range of benefits, here is an overview of what you can expect.
- 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days).
- 2 paid volunteering days a year.
- Employee shares programme.
- 40% Rabatt auf Mode- und Schönheitsprodukte, die von Zalando verkauft und versendet werden, 30% Rabatt auf Lounge by Zalando, Rabatte von externen Partnern.
- Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement).
- Family services, including counselling and support.
- Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass).
- Mental health support and coaching available.
- Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.
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About Your Employer
Zalando SE
Zalando is the leading online fashion platform in Europe, connecting customers, brands, and partners in 17 markets. We offer the latest styles and trends from the best fashion brands around the world, all in one place. With Zalando, you can find the perfect outfit for any occasion, whether you're looking for casual wear, formal wear, or something in between. We also offer a wide range of sizes and styles to suit every customer's needs. Shop with us today and see why we're the leading fashion destination in Europe.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade
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Principal Data Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
