Top Data Engineer Jobs in Cologne

Build and enhance scalable data pipelines and architectures using Azure, Databricks, Spark, and other big data technologies. Process and transform large datasets, collaborate with cross-functional teams on data needs, apply CI/CD practices, and improve data performance, scalability, and quality.

Build the companys first data stack and data products (internal analytics and customer-facing). Work across data engineering, devops, and software tasks; ship early features, improve developer experience, document proposals, and iterate based on feedback.

Responsible for deploying and maintaining data center infrastructure, troubleshooting hardware and network issues, managing inventory, and setting up data centers.

Design, build, and operate enterprise reporting and analytics platforms. Create scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, master data foundations, and lakehouse/warehouse semantic models. Deliver Power BI datasets and dashboards, implement data quality, governance, DevOps practices, and cost-management data solutions. Partner with finance and stakeholders and provide technical leadership across architecture, deployment, and run-state support.

Lead development and scaling of data processing pipelines for road and navigation products. Design and implement new pipelines, monitor performance metrics, and enforce security best practices. Collaborate within a cross-functional team to build high-quality, distributed data systems supporting mapping and navigation features.

Design and deliver scalable data pipelines for model development and production ML workflows in autonomous driving. Ingest, transform, curate, validate, and monitor large-scale real-world, synthetic, and partner datasets. Improve pipeline performance and collaborate with ML engineers, Data Corpus, AI Platform, and partners to ensure datasets are reliable, traceable, and model-ready.

Own end-to-end AI-automated data platform migration projects (1-4 concurrently): scope, plan, execute, and hand off. Act as primary customer contact, configure Datafold's Migration Agent, partner with engineering on execution, and help refine delivery playbooks.

Design, build, and operate governed data pipelines and context layers for AI agents integrating Salesforce, SAP, and service data. Implement feedback loops, data-quality frameworks, semantic models, Power BI reporting, and secure API-based integrations to support enterprise commercial AI workflows.

Build scalable data pipelines and architectures for data and AI products, lead cloud data migration to Azure, optimize large-scale datasets, and support reporting and analytics. Collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, DevOps, backend, product, and business teams. Promote clean code, automation, maintainability, and continuous improvement across the data platform.

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures on cloud platforms (primarily Azure). Drive cloud data migration, transform large-scale datasets for analytics and ML, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and promote engineering best practices, automation, and CI/CD across the data platform.

The Principal Data Engineer will improve data pipeline architecture, optimize data flows, and support data projects for various teams in the company.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT data pipelines with Airflow; develop dbt data models and tests; optimize Athena tables/queries and data workflows; provision infrastructure with Terraform; ensure data quality and reliability; collaborate with Analytics, BI, and Engineering; troubleshoot pipeline and data quality issues.

Lead mechanical due diligence and feasibility for data center sites and deals. Validate cooling topology and equipment strategy (air, liquid, hybrid), assess capacity, vendor lead times, and integration with budgets and schedules. Define mechanical readiness gates, deliver validated scope to Delivery, coordinate with stakeholders and vendors, and help build repeatable evaluation standards for AI/hyperscale infrastructure acquisitions.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transformations, and analytics-ready models using dbt, SQL, Python, and Snowflake. Implement ingestion, CDC, API integrations, testing, monitoring, and observability. Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to define metrics, ensure data governance and compliance, and optimize data platform reliability.

Lead delivery of end-to-end data and analytics solutions: build dimensional models, develop Power BI dashboards, perform exploratory analysis, design Azure-based data pipelines, capture client requirements, run scenario modelling, test and assure solutions, prepare client communications and lead project teams.

Lead data and analytics projects: design dimensional models, build Power BI dashboards, run exploratory analysis, capture client requirements, develop end-to-end data pipelines on Azure, test and assure solutions, support client decision-making, and contribute to business generation and people development.

Build and maintain high-performance market data infrastructure in Rust to ingest, process, store, and serve real-time pricing feeds. Solve latency, data quality, and cross-exchange consistency problems, contribute trading/market-data expertise to engineering decisions, communicate with a distributed team, and potentially lead a small team over time.

Designs and maintains data management architectures for irregular warfare and operations data, including ingestion, cataloging, metadata, retrieval, dissemination, dashboards, and Common Operating Pictures. Supports knowledge management frameworks, cross-command information sharing, data governance, secure cloud environments, and operational decision-making. Collaborates with analysts, planners, and leadership while troubleshooting complex data flows and architectures in classified NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS environments.

The Staff Engineer will define architecture, lead data pipeline design, ensure platform reliability, and mentor engineers, driving data initiatives and technical standards.

Design and maintain data warehouse systems, develop ETL pipelines, manage datasets for analytics, and implement real-time data solutions.

The role involves creating and automating infrastructure features for data platforms using Python, with a focus on distributed systems and collaboration within a global team.

The role involves automating OpenSearch operations by developing features in Python, collaborating with an international team, and providing expertise on data platforms.

As a Software Engineer on the data platform team, you'll automate data platform operations, write Python code, and collaborate on solutions within a distributed team.

Lead design and ownership of a cloud-native data platform: build scalable batch ETL and ingestion pipelines, develop analytical models (Athena/Redshift/ClickHouse), integrate data workflows with microservices on ECS, ensure data quality/observability, performance tuning, implement IaC and CI/CD, and mentor engineers.

Join Zencore as a Senior Data Engineer, leveraging Google Cloud expertise and technology strategies to assist clients with data and application modernization.