Swisslinx is seeking for a Senior Data Engineer to join an exciting project at one of global leading re/insurance company in Zurich on a 12-month contract
Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
* Design and implementproduction-ready data pipelinesusingPySpark on Databricks
* Work from specifications provided byBusiness Analysts
* Collaborate closely withData EngineersandSolution Architects
* Ensure solutions meet bothfunctional and non-functional requirements
* Developing applications using an IDE such as VS Code or PyCharm
About the Customer
* Duration: 12 monthly, very likely to extend (intial project goes until 2028)
* Location: Zurich
* Hybrid: 3 days/week in the Office
Your Team
Team of 12 people, including the Product Owner, 4Business analysts and 7 engineers, most of them are in Zurich, others in Italy.
Top 3 Must-Have Skills
1. PySpark(Python alone is not enough — Spark is essential)
2. Databricks & Delta Lake
3. Azure fundamentals
Requirements
* Min. 5 yearsof experience as Data Engineer developing complex software systems
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree inComputer Science(or related field)
* Strongsoftware engineering mindset(design patterns, best practices, clean code)
* Solid background indata engineeringand analytical frameworks
* Strongcore Pythonsoftware engineering experience
* 3+ years of hands‑on experiencewith modern data platforms
* Experience of working withdelta lakesandoptimizing Sparkworkloads running on it.
* Have a good understanding and significant experience with projects usingrelational datamodels andSQL.
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