Senior Data Engineer Marketing Platform (all genders)
Job Summary
THE ROLE & THE TEAM
ZMS is Zalandos advertising and marketing platform for merchants and brands. Join us to help drive the development of a platform that strives to inspire engage and inform Zalando shoppers through highly relevant advertising experiences seamlessly supporting our customers shopping journeys by empowering partners to promote their brands stories and products.
You will work on the service that powers campaign creation decisions for thousands of merchants across multiple markets that is a critical system that directly influences how marketing campaigns are built and executed.
Youll build and maintain data solutions using our modern tech stack. The current solution relies on Databricks for data processing Delta Lake and Postgres with Airflow as an orchestrator. Your work will directly impact the quality of decisions made by our partners and internal teams
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando our vision is to be the starting point for fashion - one that is inclusive by design. We only assess candidates based on qualifications merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities sexual orientations personal expressions racial identities ethnicities religious beliefs and disability statuses. We only want to know why youre great for this role so please avoid including your picture age and marital status in your CV as well.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.
- our diversity & inclusion strategy: employee resource groups: WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Design and implement the systems that power campaign decisions for thousands of merchants.
Take end-to-end responsibility for projects in a cross-functional team and iterate quickly during the product development cycle. As well as ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders product managers and engineering peers.
Lead data engineering competency development in the Marketing platform
Share your knowledge with your colleagues and help them grow their technical skills.
Evaluate and implement leading-edge technologies and optimise platform performance to ensure our platform remains ahead of the curve
WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
Must have:
Experience: 57 years of professional experience in data engineering.
Distributed Systems: Deep knowledge of distributed data processing (Databricks/Spark preferred) performance tuning and building observability and health checks for data pipelines.
Storage Performance: Practical experience optimizing and tuning databases or storage engines.
Programming: Strong coding skills in any general-purpose language (e.g. Python / C / C / Java / Scala / GoLang / Rust ) and SQL skills focused on data transformation performance.
Data Architecture: Proven track record of designing building maintaining and evolving data models and data processing systems.
Mentorship & Collaboration: A passion for knowledge sharing and a desire to mentor team members on best practices code quality and engineering excellence.
Nice-to-have:
Cloud: Experience with cloud delivery models and Kubernetes (K8s).
Matching Data Stack: Hands-on experience with tools that we use like dbt Databricks Postgres Airflow Dash0.
API Design: Experience or knowledge in designing and developing APIs.
Streaming & Messaging: Experience working with real-time streaming pipelines or messaging queue (micro-services).
Operational Excellence: Experience managing production data systems including handling SLAs incident response and on-call rotations.
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30% off Zalando Lounge discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with flexible hours and up to 60% remote per week actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation a year to start
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services including counselling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
ABOUT ZALANDO & ZALANDO MARKETING SERVICES
Its the perfect time to join Zalandos journey from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce to becoming the Starting Point for Fashion in Europe. We connect customers brands and partners across 25 markets.
Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion logistics advertising and research bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 49 million active customers.
At ZMS we create meaningful connections between brands and consumers through a deep understanding of their personalities. We work with brands agencies and publishers from fashion and beyond to produce innovative impactful campaigns that reach the right audience at the right moment. Thanks to its holistic mix of cutting-edge and privacy compliant technology in-depth audience insights expansive reach and compelling content brands produce successful campaigns across multiple digital marketing channels.
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