One of our clients - world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other insurance-based risk transfer solutions, is looking to hire in Zurich, Switzerland a Senior Data Engineer with strong experience in PySpark, Delta Lake, Databricks and Azure. You will support a major transformation project by designing and implementing production‑ready data pipelines using PySpark on Databricks. This includes working with large-scale datasets containing billions of records and ensuring strong performance and maintainability.
Key Responsibilities :
- Build and optimize data pipelines using PySpark on Databricks
- Work closely with data engineers, architects, and business analysts
- Meet both functional and non-functional requirements (, runtime, scalability)
- Apply engineering best practices to maintain large codebases
- Handle Delta Lake workloads and optimize Spark performance
Requirements :
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or any other related fieldStrong software engineering skills, including familiarity and application of design patterns, and engineering best practices.Proven experience developing complex software systems as a software engineer (at least 5 years)Strong understanding of data engineering techniques with high level programming languages (, Java, C#, or Python) and analytical frameworksStrong core Python software engineering experienceAt least 3 years for hands on experience with Apache Spark (PySpark), developing applications using an IDE such as VS Code or PyCharmexperience of working with delta lakes and optimizing Spark workloads running on it.Have a good understanding and significant experience with projects using relational data models and SQL.Good work ethic and self-starter. You look out for issues, opportunities and address them when you can, raise them when you cannot.Good analytical skills and the ability to understand complexity and break it down into smaller, achievable steps.Highly proficient in English (written and verbal).Job Title : Senior Data Engineer
Location : Zürich, Switzerland
Job Type : Contract
TEKsystems, an Allegis Group company. Allegis Group AG, Aeschengraben 20, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland. Registration No. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.