Senior Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer — SimCorp

SimCorp Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

What Makes Us, Us

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

Why This Role Is Important

You will be joining an innovative application development team within SimCorp's Product Division. We provide a cloud native SaaS product built on Azure using modern development principles, technologies, and practices. The product, Digital Engagement Platform (DEP), has been operational for 4 years and is being lifted to the next level, modernizing architecture and tech stack so we can scale DEP for a much larger audience than we can today.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Building and maintaining data pipelines – designing and implementing ELT processes integrating with various client systems to support the application’s data needs.
• Ensuring data quality and reliability – ensuring consistency of data through its lifecycle.
• Optimising data processing – continuously tuning queries and data processing to improve speed, cost optimisation, and efficiency as volumes grow.
• Working together with teammates and architects to define and refine the product architecture and roadmap – and find potential improvements to existing software.
• Data modelling – organising and mapping data and their relationships.
• Guiding and supporting teammates to spread data knowledge and experience more broadly in the team.
• Participating in support activities and client communication.
• Facilitating and working on the migration of our current data platform towards a more modern tool stack with high quality and maintainability.

What We Value – Skills and Experience

• Expert in Snowflake
• Expert in SQL
• Proficiency in dbt (data build tool) for data manipulation, testing, data quality, and governance
• Proficiency with Airflow (Astronomer)
• Proficiency in Python
• Some proficiency in C# .NET can be helpful
• Familiarity with Microsoft cloud data services, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Analysis Services (the old tech stack)
• Cloud Data Warehouses experience
• Managing schema changes in existing deployments
• Managing temporal data / SCD Type 2
• Entitlements
• Managing the complexity of multiple clients and balancing re‑use vs. customisation
• Security‑first mindset, with knowledge on how to implement row‑level security etc.
• Agile development methodologies and DataOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (e.g., automated DB validations and deployment of DB schema using DACPAC)

What We Value – Traits

• Collaborates with team members towards common goals
• Has solid problem‑solving skills and is comfortable questioning assumptions
• Clear communicator who speaks up when needed
• Exhibits a consistent approach and a creative mindset
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and values teamwork

Benefits

• Global hybrid work policy – 2 days a week from the office, remote other days
• Growth and innovation – every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation
• High degree of self‑organisation – each team and developer has freedom to plan, organise and design their work
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Pension and health benefits and bonus
• Work‑life balance – we strongly believe in achieving equilibrium between professional responsibilities and personal life
• Empowerment – all voices are valuable and must be heard; you will be involved in shaping our work processes

Next Steps

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible; we process incoming applications continually. Only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognise that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photos, age, or any non‑professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in mitigating biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on a positive growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you in discovering the right role. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are focused on continually improving our talent acquisition process and making everyone’s experience positive and valuable. As part of the process we will ask you to provide feedback, which is highly appreciated.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development