Senior Data Engineer

What Makes Us, Us  

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!  

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

You will be joining an innovative application development team within SimCorp's Product Division. We provide a cloud native SaaS product built on Azure using modern development principles, technologies, and practices.

The product, Digital Engagement Platform (DEP) has been operational for 4 years and based in client feedback and our own experience we have begun to lift the product to the next level, modernizing architecture and tech stack so we can scale DEP for a much larger audience than we can today.

This is why we need you - to help design and build a new DEP 2.0 that can support the biggest clients, asset managers, across the globe.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Building and maintaining data pipelines – designing and implementing ELT processes integrating with various client systems to support the applications data needs.
• Ensuring data quality and reliability – to ensure consistency of data through its lifecycle
• Optimize data processing – continuously tune queries and data processing to improve speed, cost optimization, and efficiency as volumes grows.
• Work together with teammates and architect to define and refine the product architecture and roadmap – and find potential improvements to existing software.
• Data modelling – organize and map data and their relationships.
• Guide and support teammates to ensure the spread of data knowledge and experience more broadly in the team.
• Participate in support activities and client communication.
• Facilitate and work on the migration of our current data platform towards a more modern tool stack with high quality and maintainability.

What We Value

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest:

You will be great for this position if you have some of the following proficiencies:

• Expert in Snowflake
• Expert in SQL
• Proficiency in dbt (data build tool) – for data manipulation, but also for test / data quality / governance
• Proficiency Airflow (Astronomer)
• Proficiency in Python
• Some proficiency in C# .NET can be helpful.
• Familiarity with Microsoft cloud data services, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Analysis services (The old tech stack).
• Cloud Data Warehouses, like
• Managing schema changes in existing deployments
• Managing temporal data / SCD Type 2
• Entitlements
• Manage the complexity of multiple clients and balance re-use vs customization
• Security first mindset, with knowledge on how to implement row level security etc.
• Agile development methodologies and DevOps / DataOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. For example, automated DB validations and deployment of DB schema using DACPAC.

As a person, you have some or all these traits:

• You collaborate with team members towards common goals.
• Solid problem-solving skills and comfortable questioning assumptions.
• Clear communicator who speaks up when needed.
• Exhibits a consistent approach and a creative mindset.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and values teamwork.

Benefits

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
• Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
• Self- Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Pension and health benefits and bonus
• Work-life balance – We strongly believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of our self’s, both in private life and as a colleague in the workplace
• Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will involved in shaping our work processes

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photos, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on a positive growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are focused on continually improving our talent acquisition process and making everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.