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About the Role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key role in building our Databricks-based analytics platform. You will create scalable pipelines, robust data models, and structures that empower teams to make better decisions daily. This role is ideal for those who combine technical excellence with pragmatism, want to take responsibility, and understand data engineering as a true business lever.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end data engineering, developing scalable, stable pipelines based on modern Databricks standards, from Delta/Medallion architectures to orchestration, monitoring, and data quality.
• Modeling data to work for everyone by building reusable data models and a clean semantic layer structure, defining metrics, and ensuring clear interpretability.
• Creating scalable BI structures by establishing standards and governance structures within the Databricks environment.
• Reducing technical debt and increasing productivity by identifying complexity and building pragmatic, clean, and future-proof structures.
• Prioritizing, making decisions, and setting clear guidelines for sustainable growth.
• Empowering stakeholders by working closely with business, marketing, product, and data analytics teams, understanding requirements early, and translating them into scalable technical solutions.
• Supporting teams in working reliably and independently with data.
• Working directly with the Head of Analytics to contribute to the vision of making decisions at Zasta data-driven and measurably contributing to growth and profitability.

Requirements

• Several years of experience with Databricks (SQL/Warehousing) and building efficient, stable pipelines including orchestration, monitoring, and data quality.
• Strong modeling and KPI/metrics competence.
• Experience building scalable BI/Analytics structures with proven direct contributions to company goals.
• German language skills at C1 level are required for communicating complex issues organization-wide and moderating decisions.
• Ability to communicate requirements clearly.

Skills

• Databricks
• SQL
• Warehousing
• Pipeline development
• Orchestration
• Monitoring
• Data Quality
• Data Modeling
• KPI/Metrics definition
• BI/Analytics architecture
• Governance
• Metabase (nice to have)
• B2C marketing environment experience (nice to have)

Location

• Rostock
• Berlin

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote work within Europe (up to 4 weeks)

Experience Level

• Senior
• Several years of experience
• Several years of professional experience (nice to have)

Benefits

• 30 days of vacation per year
• Opportunity to work remotely within Europe for up to 4 weeks at a time
• Regular visits and team events
• Joker days for flexibility

About the Company

• Zasta was founded in 2017 and is the leading tax app in the German app stores.
• Our software enables every taxpayer to file a professional tax return without much effort.
• Our platform works with real tax advisors to ensure everyone gets the best result, even without tax knowledge.
• Over 2 million users already trust our app.
• We are a profitable company that is growing sustainably.
• Our management knows everyone who works with us.

Equal Opportunity

• We encourage you to apply even if you are not sure if you meet all the requirements for this position. You might bring something special to the team that we haven't considered yet.