data engineer banking

Sparkassen Rating und Risikosysteme is the central service provider for risk management solutions within the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. It provides standardized solutions for risk measurement and management, regulatory bank management, sales, and data analytics.

• Design, implement, and operate robust data pipelines and platforms that provide high-quality data to sales and specialist departments;
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures for reporting, analytics, and machine learning applications;
• Model data according to data warehouse standards and ensure data quality, consistency, and traceability across the entire data flow;
• Work closely with Data Scientists, analysts, specialist departments, and IT to capture requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions;
• Monitor and optimize the performance, stability, and costs of data platforms;
• Ensure a high degree of automation, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code;
• Structure work in JIRA;
• Document architecture, data flows, and decisions in Confluence;
• Share knowledge within the team.

• Completed degree in computer science, business informatics, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent knowledge gained through professional experience and further training;
• Several years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, DWH/BI Developer, or in a comparable role;
• Lateral or functional leadership experience, or project management experience with an own project team;
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java;
• Confident use of relational and ideally distributed database systems;
• Experience building and operating ETL/ELT processes;
• Experience with data modeling, such as Star Schema or Data Vault;
• Experience working with large data volumes;
• Practical experience with modern data platforms and technologies, such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable on-premise solutions;
• Very good German language skills, spoken and written, at C1 level;
• Nice to have: experience with CI/CD, version control with Git, and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Attractive compensation package;
• 30 Days of vacation plus 2 bank holidays and additional special leave for personal occasions;
• Company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits;
• Individual internal and external training through the company academy;
• Flexible working hours with flextime;
• Company health management;
• Contribution toward a job ticket and meal vouchers;
• Company bicycle leasing through JobRad;
• Free current account management including a Visa Card Gold at Berliner Sparkasse;
• Internal meetups, afterworks, summer parties, and Christmas parties.