Senior Data Engineer

305 King St W

Suite 1100

Kitchener, ON N2G 1B9

Canada

Senior Data Engineer Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are in search of a solutions-oriented Senior Data Engineer in Zürich to join our dynamic and diverse teams empowered to meet client demands and continually enhance their delivery experience.

If you have a knack for designing, implementing and maintaining data-driven applications, engineering robust data pipelines and contributing to all stages of the software development lifecycle, you would be a perfect fit for this role. Unleash your potential and join us in making a difference!

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain new and existing data-driven applications
• Develop and see through solutions End to End
• Engineer reliable data pipelines for sourcing, processing, distributing and storing data
• Design data models that can support ever growing volumes
• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
• Provide technical expertise, recommendations and innovative solutions
• Work collaboratively alongside the product owner and other technologists
• Share expertise and best practice with colleagues and contribute regularly to our engineering culture

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent in the IT field with 10+ years of experience in a similar role
• Experience with Big Data, Data Warehouse and Data Lake
• Hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines, processing high volume data in batch as well stream for near real-time analytics
• Experience with Data Bricks, Python, Spark, Delta Lake, DLT, Unix/Linux and Shell Scripting
• Experience in database development (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) is desirable
• Experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, any other)
• Extensive experience designing applications (Object oriented design, Design patterns), specifically considering the NFRs around high throughput and low latency for data processing
• Expertise building automated functional tests (TDD, BDD) using industry standard tools
• Fluent English and German skills are needed

We Offer

• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Enhanced parental leave
• Extended pension plan
• Daily sickness allowance insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Referral program
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Global business travel medical and accident insurance
• Great learning and development opportunities, including in-house professional training, career advisory and coaching, sponsored professional certifications, well-being programs, LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more
• EPAM Switzerland was named a Top Company 2022, 2023 & 2024 by Kununu for its people centric culture built on life-long learning
• Certain benefits and perks may be subject to eligibility requirements

Additional

• Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks
• We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies
• For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:
• Swiss nationals
• EU/EFTA nationals
• Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit
• Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits