Data Engineer - Partner Tech

Zalando Partner Tech is the technology organisation within Zalando responsible for sourcing fashion products and consumer goods into Zalando. Through our platform and tools, we provide a wide range of products to customers all over Europe. The organisation is composed of more than 300 talented individuals who are dedicated to creating the best platform and inspiring opportunities for multi million euro fashion brands and physical retail stores, connecting them with consumers across multiple European markets.

As a Data Engineer within Partner Tech, you will get the opportunity to shape the ways we build, extend and improve our data platform. You will work in a welcoming and inclusive team of data engineers. You will be responsible for the identification, collection and transformation of data, consumed by Zalando Partners and internal users. You will communicate frequently with your team’s stakeholders to understand and react to their needs in order to raise the data capabilities of all of Partner Tech.

We actively leverage Databricks and Airflow, together with Python and Spark on top of AWS infrastructure to build our pipelines and Anomalo for our data quality process.

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Be in the driver's seat. You enjoy being proactive, addressing intricate business problems and taking the initiative to independently explore and understand them.

• Share your ideas about ways to enhance existing tooling and processes.

• Support the implementation of a reliable and performant data infrastructure that integrates with internal and 3rd party tools.

• Collaborate with diverse teams of talented data analysts, applied scientists, business analysts, product managers, and software engineers to implement and maintain high-performance data-processing and data integration systems on top of lake house architecture.

• Work with senior data engineers, and peers in central data platform teams to develop the system architecture and ensure seamless integration into Zalando's central data platform

• Establish and enforce data quality standards throughout the ETL process.

• Set up mechanisms to proactively identify and address potential issues before they impact data integrity.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF...

• You have solid programming skills in Python.

• Several years of proficiency in engineering best practices, designing, implementing scalable data pipelines from data lake.

• Experience of running data processing pipelines using distributed data processing frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with a cloud ecosystem (AWS, GCP or Azure) and integration with orchestration services (like Airflow).

• Experience in working with MPP data warehouse, e.g. Redshift, Big Query or Snowflake.

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English with an ability to articulate complex technical topics and solutions concisely and simply.

• Nice to have: Experience with Databricks and Apache Spark. Previous operational excellence contributions and support rotation experience (24/7, incident management etc) would be a definite plus.
  

If you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles!

OUR OFFER

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback with internal guilds and Employee Resource Groups, knowledge sharing through tech talks and open source commitment, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, meetups, parties and events.

• Competitive salary and employee shares program.

• 40% Zalando discount of products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge and additional discounts from external partners

• Monthly transport, lunch and recreation vouchers, private health insurance and occupational health care services, family services, free beverages and snacks, diverse sports and health offerings

• Centrally located office in Kamppi, Helsinki, with flexible working times, additional holidays and hybrid working model

• Extensive onboarding, mentoring and training opportunities and an international team of experts to work with

• Relocation assistance for internationals

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us. For more information about our office and teams in Helsinki, please visit: https://www.zalandohelsinki.com/

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups