Team Leader Data Engineering 80-100%

This is your contribution
Ensure personnel, technical, and financial team leadership; operate and further develop data platforms, and participate in on-call service; develop and administer typical components such as databases, ETL tools, query engines, API gateways, and backend applications on-premises and in the cloud; be responsible for requirements analysis, specification, modeling, system design, development, testing, and integration of workflows, interfaces, and services on Linux/Unix/Windows in the backend area; develop solutions for meteorology and climatology for the integration, transformation, and provision of data according to international standards (e.g., notification and warning systems in air traffic); develop APIs and gateways, take over and modernize existing applications and systems
What makes you unique
Master in computer science or business informatics as well as several years of experience with data management systems in the cloud (AWS) and in your own data center (Unix/Linux); confident handling of data pipelines and ETL products such as Pentaho, FME, with database products such as PostgreSQL, Oracle; scripting or programming skills with AI support desirable (e.g.: Python, Java, PL/SQL, ksh, C, R); initial experience with technologies such as streaming (Kafka), Airflow, No-SQL, query engines, AI tools etc. is an advantage; structured working according to ITIL processes with agile methods in operational operations; very good German skills and knowledge of a second official language as well as English
In a nutshell
The spectrum of this demanding position extends from topics in science via the operational operation of the existing DWH to the agile construction of new data platforms. The stable 24×7 availability of weather and climate data is the basis for sustainable services for the well-being and protection of the Swiss population.
What defines us
The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSchweiz) is the national weather service of Switzerland. We record and forecast weather and climate in Switzerland and thereby make a sustainable contribution to the well-being of the population and to the benefit of economy, science, and the environment. The offices of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (EDI) are systematically committed to good working conditions and the health of their employees and are awarded the Friendly Work Space label.
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Questions about the position
Lars Koppa
Head of IT Data Management
+41 58 460 93 11