Data Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Overview

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Data Engineer. The Finance Data team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Switzerland. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Job duties

• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers.
• Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python.
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan.
• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures.

Required qualifications

• 2-4 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow.
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.
• Strong Python for data processing.

Preferred

• Terraform for data infrastructure.
• Dbt Certified Developer or Databricks certification.
• Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming.

Rate: CHF 120,000 - CHF 146,000 per year

What we offer

• Company pension scheme.
• Up to 3 days of home office per week.
• JobRad bike leasing.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Technologies GmbH.