Senior Data Engineer - Databricks, German B2+

• Move existing analytics workloads to Databricks
• Model data for analytics
• Own the reliability of the pipelines you build
• Work with the client’s German-speaking engineers and business people: requirements, reviews, demos
• Review the work of other engineers on the account as the team grows, * Access to the AltexSoft library with top-notch materials
• A mentor for a probation period
• Engagement in our Mentorship Hub program as a mentor or a mentee to foster professional growth and development

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong Databricks experience and German at B2 or above. Our client is an enterprise in the DACH region that is moving its analytics workloads to Databricks. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll design, build and run the batch and streaming pipelines behind that platform, model the data for analytics, and own the reliability of everything you put into production. You’ll work with the client’s own engineers and business stakeholders in German, gathering requirements, walking them through reviews and demos, and agreeing the technical decisions with them. As the team on the account grows, you’ll review the work of other engineers and help them get up to speed. In this position, you’ll collaborate with a team of experienced data engineers, solution architects and analysts, working within a fully functional development team within our company. The engagement is full-time and remote, and contracts on this account typically run 6 to 12 months., * 5+ years in data engineering

• Databricks in production
• Python and SQL
• Spark, batch and streaming; performance tuning and cost control on Databricks
• Delta Lake, layered data models, job orchestration in Databricks
• Azure. AWS experience is fine too
• CI/CD for pipelines, basic infrastructure as code, Git
• German B2 or above.
• English B2 or above

Would be a plus

• Databricks certification (Data Engineer Associate or Professional)
• Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Databricks Asset Bundles
• Migration from Azure Synapse, Cloudera, SAP BW, Oracle or Snowflake - dbt, Airflow, Kafka or Event Hubs

We are AltexSoft. We are a consulting company. Every day we apply our Data and AI expertise to help our clients move their analytics onto modern cloud platforms and get real use out of their data. Join us to work on projects that reach production, in a team where your opinion counts, and to keep growing as an engineer. If you enjoy building data platforms and working directly with the people who use them, we’d love to hear from you.