Senior AI Data Engineer at Zendesk
Berlin, Berlin, Germany -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Dec, 26

Salary

50000.0

Posted On

24 Sep, 26

Experience

4 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Yes

Skills

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Description
  • Develop and maintain ELT pipelines, ensuring data reliability and scalability for business reporting and analytics use cases.
  • Build and optimize SQL-based data models using dbt and other ETL tools.
  • Support ZAP’s progress toward a more AI-enabled operating model, using emerging technologies to help improve team productivity.
  • Identify and implement improvements in data delivery, processing performance, and system efficiency.
  • Collaborate with team members to define requirements and translate them into scalable data models and pipelines.
  • Contribute to the team’s technical vision and bring innovative solutions to enhance data systems.


What you bring to the role

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience building, maintaining and working with data pipelines & ETL processes in big data environments.
  • Extensive experience with SQL, ideally in the context of data modeling and analysis.
  • Hands-on production experience with dbt, and proven knowledge in modern and classic Data Modeling - Kimball, Inmon, etc.
  • Programming skills in Python or a similar language, with an emphasis on data transformation and automation.
  • Experience with cloud columnar databases (Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • Proven experience in performance testing, capacity planning, and cost optimization for large-scale, complex data pipelines and systems. This includes identifying bottlenecks, ensuring scalability, and minimizing operational costs in cloud-based data environments.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain ELT pipelines, ensuring data reliability and scalability for business reporting and analytics use cases.
  • Build and optimize SQL-based data models using dbt and other ETL tools.
  • Support ZAP’s progress toward a more AI-enabled operating model, using emerging technologies to help improve team productivity.
  • Identify and implement improvements in data delivery, processing performance, and system efficiency.
  • Collaborate with team members to define requirements and translate them into scalable data models and pipelines.
  • Contribute to the team’s technical vision and bring innovative solutions to enhance data systems.


What you bring to the role

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience building, maintaining and working with data pipelines & ETL processes in big data environments.
  • Extensive experience with SQL, ideally in the context of data modeling and analysis.
  • Hands-on production experience with dbt, and proven knowledge in modern and classic Data Modeling - Kimball, Inmon, etc.
  • Programming skills in Python or a similar language, with an emphasis on data transformation and automation.
  • Experience with cloud columnar databases (Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • Proven experience in performance testing, capacity planning, and cost optimization for large-scale, complex data pipelines and systems. This includes identifying bottlenecks, ensuring scalability, and minimizing operational costs in cloud-based data environments.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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