Senior Principal Data Engineer (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Sr. Principal Data Engineer in the Zalando eCommerce Platform Sciences team you will work with exceptional engineers, science, analysts, and product leaders to spearhead the strategy, design, and implementation of data systems and pipelines that are scalable, repeatable, and secure. We are looking for someone who has in-depth understanding of data engineering best practices as well as expertise with the tools needed to debug and diagnose issues.

You will contribute as a team member to testing, QA, documentation of data pipelines and systems and will help manage junior/senior data engineer operations and ensure data compliance and security needs are met in system construction. We are looking for an experienced data leader with experience in translating business needs into data-driven solutions to be part of the leadership team and support various cross-group teams to define and drive the data strategy for Science within Zalando.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Mentor junior to senior data engineers and actively collaborate with other teams. Share knowledge and expertise within our talented engineering, product, data, analyst, and science community.

• Developing and implementing data strategies and approaches to solving complex problems and challenges to help achieve business goals and objectives.

• Working closely with applied science and engineering leaders, product managers and other business stakeholders to bring our state-of-the-art solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.

• Developing new approaches to data storage, evaluation, ongoing maintenance, and best practices that will be useful across the entire company, including with structured and unstructured data.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

•  Growth mindset, strive for excellence, fast and passionate learner, open-minded, excel on giving and receiving feedback, thrive in front of changes and challenges. 

• Excellent software development engineering skills to design and implement effective solutions for data strategies in large-scale production environments (data engineering, data version control). You are great at and happy to hands-on delivering projects as well as leading development.

• Experience leading the architecture and design (design patterns, reliability and scaling) and building of new and current data systems, and developing tools for self-serve access. 

• You have hands-on experience in developing data pipelines for batch and stream processing using AWS services, Databricks, Airflow.

• You have a deep understanding of monitoring, and maintaining data pipelines.

• You made the applications resilient and reliable through open tracing, monitoring, and load testing.

• Experience with operating data-driven systems in a cloud environment, including with feature stores & feature engineering pipelines, data ingestion & transformation, and data quality management.

• Experience working with machine learning, especially deep learning applications and platforms such as Pytorch or TensorFlow is a plus.

• Good communication skills and experience leading organization-wide collaborations. Ability and eagerness to understand the business context where the team operates and the customer problems being solved.

• Experience coaching and mentoring senior engineers, and working closely with applied scientists, engineers, and product managers.  
   

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGNAt 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-groupsOUR OFFER

• Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners

• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• Hybrid working model with 60% (or more) remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us