Data Engineer (m/f/o)

Job ID:1561

We’re building out our data and machine learning infrastructure and forming a new data platform team. The team is just forming, and this is a great opportunity to make an early impact on launching this exciting new platform.

This role is focused on designing and building high-quality data infrastructure solutions as part of the central ML/data team using a hub and spoke approach, along with higher-level architectural work. You’ll be reporting to the Director of Data/AI.

Thieme is a leading supplier of information and services contributing to the improvement of healthcare and health. Employing more than 1,000 staff, the family-owned company develops products and services in digital and other media for the medical and chemistry sectors. Operating internationally with offices in 11 cities worldwide, the Thieme Group works closely with a strong network of experts and partners. The products and services are based on the high-quality content of Thieme\\\’s 200 journals and 4,400 books. With solutions for professionals, Thieme supports relevant information processes in research, education, and patient care. Medical students, physicians, nurses, allied health specialists, hospitals, health insurance companies and others interested in health and healthcare are at the focus of Thieme\\\’s activities. The mission of the Thieme Group is to provide these markets with precisely the information, services, and products they need in their specific work situation and career.

Department: IT
Start: at the earliest possible date
Contract duration: unlimited
Working hours: full-time (40h/week)

Your new passion

• Designing, building and operating data and ML solutions, including data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving layers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data standards, governance policies, and best practices.
• Mentoring and guiding junior data engineers, empowering data analysts and engineers, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement of our data infrastructure with a focus on experience for data scientists and analysts, security, efficiency and costs.
• Contribute to the development of our data strategy and roadmap.

You inspire us with this

• You have at least a few years of experience as an individual contributor and most of them in data engineering.
• You understand requirements (performance, data, feature) between different systems and can translate this into technical designs. Your strong analytical mindset allows you to assess trade-offs between different approaches to drive impactful decisions.
• You have seen different cloud data stacks and are deeply familiar with at least two: AWS, GCP, Azure, Spark and/or Databricks. We are using Azure and Databricks.
• You have a well-rounded infrastructure knowledge beyond pure data engineering and are familiar with IaC, CI/CD, and observability. We are using Terraform, Prometheus and Gitlab.
• You have built and maintained at least one data/ML platform over a long period of time. You’re comfortable with traditional data warehouse architecture, concepts like data meshes and have a well rounded understanding of BI related data challenges.
• You bring a clear, audience-sensitive style to your verbal and written communication in German and English. Note that your stakeholders may be German, so a B2 level is required.

What we offer you

• With the option of flexitime (40 hours/week for full-time employees) and mobile working within Germany, you can organise your own individual way of working.
• Use state-of-the-art hardware, which we will of course provide you with.
  Become part of a family-run, internationally active company – accompany our digital transformation and play an active role in shaping the future of healthcare.
• Support pioneering innovations in the field of digitalisation and set new standards together with us.
• Experience a new work culture of participation – we focus on empowerment and respectful interaction with one another.
• Benefit from individualised Thieme.ACADEMY offers that promote your strengths and drive your personal development.
• You can also take advantage of our wide range of health and sports programmes.