Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer position based in our Poznań location to join the Data Platform Team team.

Ready to help build a better future for generations to come?

In an ever-changing, fast paced world, we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to live life responsibly. At ROCKWOOL, we work relentlessly to enrich modern living through our innovative stone wool solutions.

Join us and make a difference!

Would you like to join a Danish-founded global company with ambitious growth plans? Do you want to support sustainability, reduce energy and resource consumption, reduce time to market, and improve customer insights?

The ROCKWOOL® Group is the world’s leading supplier of innovative products and systems based on stone wool, improving the environment and the quality of life for millions of people. We recognize that each one of us is original and different. Diversity and inclusion are in our DNA and are key drivers for innovation.

We have recently embarked on a journey towards greater digitalization and automation, leveraging data more effectively—and this is where your expertise comes into play.

What you will be doing: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our newly established Data Platform Team. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable data pipelines, and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes using modern stacks. You will integrate data from various sources, ensuring the quality and integrity of our data. Additionally, you will collaborate with data scientists, BI developers, business analysts, and citizen developers.

Currently, we are looking for someone to manage data from sensors in factories around the world as we enhance our platform to meet the growing demand for high-quality data. You should expect to work with other data platforms, tech stacks, and new initiatives coming into our team. Our company is tech-agnostic, always seeking the best tools for specific challenges.

More specifically, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes,
• Collaborate with the data science team to support and contribute to their work,
• Develop integrations with our integration team,
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify data needs and design data solutions,
• Develop and maintain ETL processes to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness,
• Contribute to the design and implementation of data governance and security policies,
• Monitor and optimize data pipelines for high availability, scalability, and performance,
• Monitor metrics for cost and usage of our data platforms,
• Design and document data architectures, data models, and data flows,
• Co-develop data architecture roadmaps,
• Collaborate with architects and master data specialists to ensure data quality.

What you bring:

Must-Have:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering focused on data integration, ETL, and data warehousing,
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Spark,
• Experience with data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake,
• Strong data modeling skills,
• Knowledge of cloud solutions on Azure,
• Understanding of data architecture principles, designs, and solutions,
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills,
• Entrepreneurial spirit to build something new from scratch.

 Big Advantages:

• Experience with DBT,
• Understanding Kafka,
• Familiarity with data pipelines tools like Airflow and Boomi,
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases,
• Certificates to proof your experience,
• A Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Natural Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with enterprise-level data architecture,
• Skills in additional programming languages (e.g. Scala, C#),
• Knowledge of BI solutions (e.g. PowerBI, Grafana),
• Familiarity with ETL tools (e.g. Informatica),
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker,
• Experience with SCRUM, Agile, and related tools (e.g. Jira).

What we offer:

By joining our team, you become a part of the people-centric work environment of a Danish company. We offer you a competitive salary, permanent contract after the probation period, development package, team building events, activity-based office in Poznan’s city center in the new prestigious office building – Nowy Rynek. The building is recognized as a building without barriers, which means that it is fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities.

Our compensation package on employment contracts includes:

• Flexible Work Arrangements: up to 2 days per week of home office possible
• Adaptable Hours: start your workday anytime between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM
• Home office subsidy
• Private Medical Care
• Multikafeteria MyBenefit
• Wellbeing program
• Extra Day Off for voluntary activities

… and while in the office you can also use modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture, bicycle parking facilities & showers, chill-out rooms with PlayStation, football table, pool table, board games, subsidized canteen with delicious food & fruit.

Interested?

If you recognize yourself in this profile and challenge, we kindly invite you to apply with CV written in English.

Who we are

We are the world leader in stone wool solutions. Founded in 1937 in Denmark, we transform volcanic rock into safe, sustainable products that help people and communities thrive. We are a global company with more than 12,200 employees, located in 40+ countries with 51 manufacturing facilities… all focused on one common purpose – to release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.

Sustainability is central to our business strategy. ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water. Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it.

Diverse and Inclusive Culture

We want all our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard. We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.

At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us. In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”. This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.