Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Berlin. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the data platform end to end, including ingestion, storage, pipeline architecture, orchestration, and governance. You will model commercial and logistics data into trusted datasets and build the foundation for pricing, forecasting, and AI agents.

What you will do

Own the lakehouse end to end including ingestion, storage, pipeline architecture, orchestration, and governance
Add near-real-time processing and maintain batch processing
Set engineering standards for the team
Model commercial and logistics data into trusted datasets
Turn business questions into reusable datasets and metrics
Create features, signals, historical snapshots, and feedback loops
Prepare the data layer for dynamic pricing and demand sensing
Introduce tests, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline failures and schema changes

Required qualifications

5+ years in data engineering with real ownership of a platform
Strong SQL and Python
Hands-on Spark
Lakehouse experience
Experience using a CRM or ERP as a primary source
Experience modelling messy, manually edited operational data
Comfortable with infrastructure as code and software engineering practices (version control, CI, testing)
Able to communicate with non-technical stakeholders
Comfortable in a fast-changing scale-up environment without a finished spec
Routine use of AI coding tools

Nice to have

Databricks
streaming experience (Kafka, Kinesis or equivalent)
machine learning or statistics for forecasting or pricing
Salesforce experience
a background in commerce, marketplaces, or supply chain
a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Benefits

Entrepreneurial freedom
Help scale a high-impact business model
Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
Attractive base and bonus compensation program
Collaboration with top-tier investors and angels (incl. various unicorn founders) as well as leading market experts

About the company

A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups and scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent. The A11 Ecosystem is a next-generation supply chain platform that harnesses agentic AI and workflow automation.