THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Senior. 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.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• We’re leveling up our analytics data infrastructure in Digital Insights & Analytics (DIA), the onsite customer analytics department at Zalando, and we want you to roll up your sleeves with us!
• You’ll report directly to the Head of DIA, and you’ll be the most senior individual contributor within Engineering Platform, our data engineering team located within DIA Central Teams, working very closely with our Engineering Manager as well. The mission of DIA Central Teams is to help our embedded product analysts
• work more efficiently and impactfully through centralized infrastructure, datasets, standards, and processes.
• This role is about designing and building high-quality data infrastructure solutions with us, along with higher-level architectural work.