Lead IT 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. 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

We are on the lookout for an experienced and motivated Data engineer. As a Lead Data engineer you would be a trusted advisor, guiding our IT towards successful technical solutions to our data challenges. 

How you’ll make impact

• Understanding the Zühlke data estate whilst designing, developing and testing scalable data solutions, including data pipelines, quality management

• Communicating the what, why and how of proposed solutions to the technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Understanding the needs of multiple types of producers and consumers for our data services, ensuring your design meets the requirements

• Collaborating with different stakeholders such as IT Architect, IT Engineers, and internal clients with ease

• Delivering projects in an Agile way, building iteratively to produce value from data early and frequently

What’s important to us

• You have completed studies in informatics or a comparable education 

• You have several years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining data products that meet the needs of data consumers

• An understanding of common approaches to data analysis and data visualisation so you can produce the right solutions for data consumers 

• Experience with a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Warehouse, streaming, batch processing) 

• Hands-on experience with databases both relational and NoSQL 

• Familiarity with cloud solutions 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, image, etc.) would be a plus

• Knowledgeable about information security and data governance

• Data programming skills with experience in different programming languages like C# or Python 

• Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new concepts and technologies 

• You are open, proactive, responding to changes quickly and with agility while learning in the process  

• You maximize benefit as simply as possible but as complexly as needed  

• You’re able to persuade people through clear communication, negotiation skills, empathy and an ability to see things from others’ perspective  

• You establish long-term, partnership-oriented relationships and develop and maintain them  

• You think and act in the interests of the organization as a whole and utilize synergies  

• You take personal initiative in confronting obstacles and failures, have an optimistic overall attitude and take measures to ensure performance in the long term 

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 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. 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.

For benefits that we offer please go to this link for Serbia, this link for Portugal and this link for Bulgaria.

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.