Senior Data Engineer
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About the Role
Are you driven by a passion for advancing technology within the Insurance industry and dedicated to combating financial crime? If so, we are looking for someone just like you to join us in Zürich as a Senior Data Engineer. This position requires a blend of remote and on-site work in a hybrid model.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening our Insurance client by:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining new and existing data-driven applications.
- Developing solutions from end to end.
- Engineering reliable data pipelines for sourcing, processing, distributing, and storing data.
- Designing data models that can accommodate ever-growing data volumes.
- Contributing to all stages of the software development lifecycle.
- Providing technical expertise, recommendations, and innovative solutions.
- Collaborating with the product owner and other team members.
- Sharing expertise and best practices to enhance our engineering culture.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate should have:
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including working closely with product owners.
- Strong core Python software engineering experience.
- Significant experience with relational data models and SQL.
- Expertise in cloud-native technologies such as Databricks, Azure DevOps, Delta Lake tables, and Spark structured streaming within the Microsoft Azure environment.
- Familiarity with PySpark and Apache Spark.
- Strong analytical skills to understand complex problems and break them down into manageable steps.
- Fluency in English is mandatory; German language skills are a significant advantage.
About the Company
EPAM Systems is a global leader in digital transformation, offering a wide range of services in software engineering and technology consulting. We are driven by the need to innovate and push the boundaries of technology within the Insurance sector.
Company Culture and Benefits
At EPAM Systems, we offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
- 5 weeks of vacation.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Enhanced parental leave.
- An extended pension plan.
- Daily sickness allowance insurance.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Global business travel medical and accident insurance.
- Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training, coaching, and access to 22,000+ courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions.
Please note:
- All benefits and perks are subject to specific eligibility requirements.
- Any offers will be contingent on appropriate background checks.
- We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies.
- For this position, we are able to consider applications from Swiss nationals, EU/EFTA nationals, third-country nationals based in Switzerland with work permits, and displaced people from Ukraine currently in Switzerland with S permits.