Team Leader Data Engineering

About the job

Zurich, Switzerland (and Home Office) | 80-100%

What you can contribute

• Ensure personnel, technical and financial team leadership
• Operate and further develop data platforms, as well as participate in on-call duty
• Develop and administer typical components such as databases, ETL tools, query engines, API gateways and backend applications on-premises and in the cloud
• Be responsible for requirements analysis, specification, modelling, system design, development, testing, integration of workflows, interfaces and services on Linux/Unix/Windows in the backend area
• Develop solutions for meteorology and climatology for the integration, transformation and provision of data according to international standards (e.g. message and warning systems in air traffic)
• Develop APIs and gateways, take over and modernise existing applications and systems

What makes you unique

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Business Informatics as well as several years of experience with data management systems in the cloud (AWS) and in own data centre (Unix/Linux)
• Confident handling of data pipelines and ETL products such as Pentaho, FME, with database products such as PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Scripting or programming skills with AI support desirable (e.g.: Python, Java, PL/SQL, ksh, C, R)
• Initial experience with technologies such as streaming (Kafka), Airflow, No-SQL, query engines, AI tools etc. is an advantage
• Structured working according to ITIL processes with agile methods in operational business
• Very good German skills and knowledge of a second official language as well as English

In a nutshell

The scope of this demanding position ranges from topics in science to the operational operation of the existing DWH to the agile development of new data platforms. The stable 24x7 availability of weather and climate data is the basis for sustainable services for the well-being and protection of the Swiss population.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model Switzerland and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) is the national weather service of Switzerland. We record and forecast weather and climate in Switzerland and thus make a sustainable contribution to the well-being of the population and to the benefit of the economy, science and the environment.

The offices of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) are systematically committed to good working conditions and the health of their employees and have been awarded the Friendly Work Space label.

Additional information

Questions about the position

Lars Koppa
Head of IT Data Management Department
+41 58 460 93 11

Questions about the application

Annette Kleisun
HR Business Partner
+41 58 460 92 35