Senior Data Engineer (f/m/d)

As our new Senior Data Engineer, you have an outsized impact on the organization: the effectiveness of the Data Platform enables a better understanding of our users, new products and data-driven decision making across the organization. As a member of cross-functional teams in different companies in central Europe, you will also power all new reporting, analytics and data product use cases. 

This Position will be based in Hamburg or Berlin, with the opportunity of hybrid work. 

Your Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the design, development, and deployment of our Data Platform products 
• Make sure that all Data Platform products are in good shape and provides support to the end-users 
• Leverage the right tools and engineering practices to deliver testable, maintainable, and reliable data solutions  
• Work closely with other team members on solving technical challenges and improving current processes
• With your colleagues in the agile teams, you will develop ideas and innovative approaches to solve current and future data challenges within the framework of the overall cloud strategy 
• Collaborate and connect with other teams to jointly find a solution by emphasizing with other teams and offering solutions how things can be done, elevating conversations when needed 

Your Profile: 

• Strong communicator with familiarity working in virtual teams and agile/lean methodologies
• Good understanding of source control management and branching strategies 
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as (but not limited to) Python, Scala or Java, along with associated data manipulation libraries 
• Extensive experience around test driven development, dependency management, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Extensive experience with build, test and deployment of complex data engineering pipelines, supporting ingest, transformation, workflow, serving and egress with proven experience using mainstream data engineering technologies 
• Experience of middleware, such as Kafka or pub/sub, data integration and data streaming also an advantage (but not essential) 
• Good experience of data serialisation formats, data modelling and data architecture 
• Good understanding of data contracts and data quality, with experience of at least one data quality framework 
• Good understanding of data governance, metadata management and data lineage 

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

We want to inspire not only our customers, we also want to inspire our colleagues. How? By giving you the opportunity to take on responsibility and by offering you a long-term perspective.

You can also benefit from our attractive offers:

• Individual solutions for the flexible organisation of working hours and location
• Targeted and individual training for your professional and personal development
• A central location in Hamburg's city centre with good transport options (bus & train)
• Subsidy for Deutschlandticket & bike leasing
• Effective health management (e.g. health week, free sports programmes & Wellhub)
• 30 days of holiday & frequent events for employees
• Company restaurant, free magazines & various discounts via corporate benefits
• A culture in which personal responsibility, teamwork and creativity are valued and you have room for creativity and for exciting and challenging tasks

If you are looking for an independent position and would like to enrich our existing team with fresh impulses, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents.

Your contact for this position is Katrin (Ammazzalorso).

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.