Senior Technical Data Engineer

We help the world run better
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WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

We are looking for a Technical Data Engineer with the mindset for highest level of service for our internal customers and support to take SAP's Marketing Technology Stack to the next level as part of our transformation journey to achieve SAP's goals. In your role as Technical Data Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and ELT workflows that power analytics, ML, and operational use cases.
• Own the data platform end-to-end across ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, quality, observability, and cost/performance optimization in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Build and optimize data architectures (data lakes and warehouses)
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists and Analytics teams
• Automate workflows and improve operational efficiency
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, automate testing and deployments (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)), and document systems to enable team-wide operational excellence.

WHAT YOU BRING:

You have a track record of shipping production-grade data systems that are reliable, observable, and cost-efficient. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and turn ambiguous requirements into well-defined data products. You value ownership, code quality, and continuous improvement, mentoring peers and elevating standards.

• 7 - 12 years building and operating data pipelines at scale with Python and SQL, including Spark or similar distributed frameworks.
• Expertise with modern ELT tooling and orchestration (dbt, Airflow/Dagster/Prefect) and version-controlled, testable transformations.
• Strong data modeling in warehouses and lakehouses (Kimball, Data Vault, medallion), schema evolution, and performance tuning.
• Cloud data platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure): storage (S3/GCS/ADLS), computing (EMR/Dataproc/Databricks/BigQuery/Snowflake), and networking fundamentals.
• Streaming and event-driven architectures (Kafka/Kinesis/Pub/Sub), exactly-once semantics, backfills, and idempotency.
• Data quality, observability, and reliability practices (Great Expectations/Soda/Monte Carlo), SLAs, alerting, and incident response.
• CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Terraform/CloudFormation), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Security and governance: IAM, secrets management, encryption, PII handling, GDPR/CCPA awareness, and access patterns (RBAC/ABAC).
• Experience enabling downstream consumers (BI/ML) via data contracts, documentation, and self-serve datasets/semantic layers (Looker/MetricLayer).

WHERE YOU BELONG

Our Go-To-Market Services for Marketing team as part of the Customer & Partner unit within the global Corporate Processes & Information Technology (CPIT) Organization is responsible for the design, implementation and operations of IT solutions, supporting SAP's core business processes mainly in Marketing and closely interacting with respective LoBs. Here, we act as the Businesses trusted advisor and expert, driving together the simplification, harmonization, and intelligence of business processes. We enable solutions for the Demand-to-Lead process area with the adoption of state-of-the-art solutions embracing innovation as well as new technologies to achieve higher effectiveness.

Besides our day-to-day business we are passionate about technology and always looking for new options to improve the way we work and deliver value to business. You want to make a difference - join us today!

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Bring out your best
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Requisition ID: 447258 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid