Lead Data Platform Engineer shaping the technical direction for the data platform at AI-enabled fintech startup. Building infrastructure for user-facing and AI-backed products in healthcare.
Responsibilities
Design data model evolution processes including schema versioning, breaking change management, and impact communication
Implement data catalog solutions and documentation practices that make metadata and lineage first-class concerns, not afterthoughts to support the data governance and security best practices in a regulated industry
Shape the technical direction of our newly-formed data platform team, from tool selection to API patterns to data governance approaches
Architect and build backend services in NodeJS/Python that enable teams to access and work with data confidently and in a reliable manner in order to build user-facing and AI-backed products
Bridge backend engineering and data infrastructure, translating team needs into platform capabilities with developer experience in mind, that are scalable and unlock product innovation.
Requirements
2+ years data platform engineering experience and 6+ years of overall experience in the industry.
Strong software engineering experience in Python with production REST API and data pipeline experience
Deep passion for documentation and knowledge sharing - you've championed documentation-first practices and believe undocumented data is nearly useless
Data catalog experience to set up a documentation basis on top the basis of Database Schemas (Postgres), OpenAPI schemas and language-agnostic IDLs
Proven ability to influence engineering culture and spread best practices across teams without formal authority
Experience with data model evolution including versioning strategies, migration processes, as well as data modeling practices to e.g. support processing of real-time, unstructured data to form structured bi-temporal stable representations
Experience in enabling AI use cases by making data accessible both in an online manner as well as for offline evaluation
Plus: AWS experience (big plus) and Dagster familiarity to accelerate onboarding with existing infrastructure
Plus: experience working in highly regulated environments, with heavy security and compliance requirements
Benefits
Competitive salary
Work in a great team of talented and highly motivated people
Dynamic environment, steep learning curve, and extensive development opportunities
Part of an exciting FinTech startup in the German healthcare market
Responsibility, independent work, and high flexibility
Generous budget for learning and development
First-class work equipment and flexible working hours
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