Senior Data Engineer

Danfoss; Venezia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring & training

Flexible work-life balance

Inclusive environment

Job summary

Danfoss is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to advance our data platform and infrastructure, enabling energy-efficient heating and cooling solutions. You will integrate data from multiple departments, drive scalable data ecosystems, and contribute to architectural decisions while collaborating with data scientists and engineering teams.

You will work across business units and stakeholders to harmonize data, improve data access, and support hands-on coding as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in building scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Develop and maintain data platform infrastructure with focus on scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and deliver new features for the data platform.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Airflow

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Iceberg

Job description

The Impact You'll Make

As our Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key role in enabling energy-efficient heating and cooling solutions to help reduce global emissions, mitigate climate change and drive cross-divisional data insights for Danfoss Climate Solutions.

Your impact? You will play a central role in advancing our data platform and data infrastructure, supporting energy-efficient solutions for cooling and heating applications and data centers. You will work with data coming from multiple business departments, helping unify and operationalize it into a scalable ecosystem. You will also contribute hands-on to technical decisions that shape how the platform evolves.

You'll collaborate across business verticals, data scientists, and engineering teams, while also playing a key role in communication and alignment across stakeholders to ensure smooth collaboration and strong team chemistry.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and data products using modern data engineering tools
• Develop and maintain data platform infrastructure with a strong focus on scalability and reliability
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business units and data science teams to define and deliver new features
• Integrate and harmonize data from multiple departments into a unified ecosystem
• Contribute to architectural and technical decisions, occasionally supporting hands-on coding
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to reduce data silos and improve the overall data ecosystem

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in software development and data engineering with strong execution mindset
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python; Go, Rust or TypeScript is a plus
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Mage, or Dagster
• Knowledge of stream processing tools like Kafka, NATS, Flink or similar
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP); Spark and Iceberg are a plus
• Experience working with time-series databases such as InfluxDB, Victoria Metrics or TimeScaleDB
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams and domains
• Excellent knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of a local language (Bulgarian, Italian or Slovenian) is considered a plus

What You'll Get From Us

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You'll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.

The compensation package includes base salary, performance-based incentive, and benefits. Salary range and full details will be shared at first contact and will reflect candidate location, local market conditions, and applicable local pay transparency regulations.

Ready to Make a Difference?

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.