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# Data Engineer - Data Platform

- **Company:** Statista GmbH
- **Location:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Revision Control Systems, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Workflow Management Systems, Software Organization, Data Ingestion, System Availability, Snowflake, Git, Containerization, Data Lakes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Data Management, Docker
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=768ca0c9f60d25f0

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SQL?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or master's in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.

 * 2+ years in data engineering building production pipelines and platforms; including a sustained period within one organization seeing a product through build launch iteration
 * Comfortable in developing ELT/ETL processes and data automation processes using Python and SQL
 * Proficiency in workflow orchestration, containerization and version control tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, Docker or git)
 * Good understanding of data modelling and architecture, with a strong interest in best practices
 * Knowledge in dlt, dbt, Snowflake, infrastructure as code and software development best practices is a plus
 * Hands-on experience in cloud services and infrastructure (e.g. AWS: S3, Glue, Athena, ECS, RDS)

## Description

As a Data Engineer on our Statista R Data Platform, you'll own data ingestion and platform reliability end-to-end: designing and operating scalable batch pipelines, hardening orchestration, ensure data quality, security, and cost efficiency. You'll partner closely with Data Analysts, Software Developers and Data Scientists to deliver well-governed datasets tailored for the teams' specific need and maturity to make high-quality data accessible and trustworthy for analysis.

Your role

 * Develop and optimize ELTs/ ETLs to integrate new data sources and enhance data management in the data lake and other systems
 * Develop reliable data orchestration workflows to ensure and support the ranking creation process of Statista R's analyst teams.
 * Drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, data science, and analysis teams to deliver documented, reproducible datasets that power rankings, KPIs and business decisions.
 * Monitor and optimize data infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and security


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