Hybrid Lead Data Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • 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
  • Deutschlandticket or Swapfiets rental bike
  • Urban Sports Club membership

Job title

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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