Senior Data Platform Engineer — Databricks & Lakehouse

Zalando GmbH; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Relocation assistance

International team

Flexible working

Job summary

Zalando GmbH in Helsinki is seeking a Data Products Architect to own ELT pipelines and data contracts, leveraging Delta Lake and Databricks to drive scalable data platforms across campaigns and content systems.

You will collaborate with 50+ engineers and product teams, implement data governance, and translate complex requirements into robust lakehouse models while ensuring data quality and security.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with the Databricks ecosystem including Unity Catalog and Delta Live Tables.
• Strong knowledge of Medallion Architecture and Delta Lake internals.
• Proficient in PySpark and Python for large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for Data Products architecture, development and quality.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines with Databricks DLT.
• Define and align Data Contracts with source system owners.
• Implement Data Governance and security within Unity Catalog.
• Perform root cause analysis to improve data quality and pipeline reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams and Zalando Data Foundation.
• Document current methods and lessons learned to foster a high-performance data culture.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data modelling

Data governance

English communication

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Workflows

Terraform

Docker

Git

AWS

Job description

Zalando GmbH in Helsinki is seeking a Data Products Architect to own ELT pipelines and data contracts, leveraging Delta Lake and Databricks to drive scalable data platforms across campaigns and content systems.

You will collaborate with 50+ engineers and product teams, implement data governance, and translate complex requirements into robust lakehouse models while ensuring data quality and security.