About the Position

Data Product Engineer (m/w/d)

Location: Köln, NW, DE

Job-ID: 953567

Employment Type: Part-Time

Department: Strategy/Business Development

Entry Level: Experienced Professionals

Contract Type: Unlimited

What We Aim to Achieve Together

We are shaping the future of data management in the grocery industry with Data Mesh. As a Data Product Engineer (m/w/d), you will develop scalable, high-performance, and high-quality data products as the foundation for AI applications, dashboards, and operational decisions. You will confidently navigate modern cloud architectures (GCP) and combine software engineering standards with a deep understanding of our data context. With fast, iterative development cycles, you will quickly deliver value – technically sound, professionally competent, and in compliance with governance. Our GCP-based data landscape, which includes Snowflake, Kafka, dbt, and Terraform, offers you the opportunity to shape a modern Data Mesh setup.

What You Will Do Here

Develop Data Products: You will continue to develop modular data products on GCP, using tools such as Snowflake, Kafka, dbt, and SQL.
Sharpen Architecture & Standards: You will establish best practices for data contracts and work with standards such as ODPS/ODCS.
Transform & Automate: You will develop robust transformation logic with dbt, Snowpark, Python, and SQL. You will also ensure code quality (Git, CI/CD) and implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
Ensure Quality, Transparency & Compliance: You will define and monitor data quality metrics (SLOs, SLIs). You will ensure automated lineage tracking, maintain metadata in the data catalog, and implement access concepts and GDPR-compliant developments.
Translate Technically & Collaborate: You will work closely with domain managers, data product owners, architects, and platform teams. You will translate technical requirements into technical designs and data models and penetrate the data landscape to quickly identify connections and deliver reliable results.

What Convinces Us

Your Personality: With clear communication and a structured approach, you bring focus to the team. Your enthusiasm for interdisciplinary collaboration makes you a connecting element. With your proactive, solution-oriented hands-on mentality, you visibly drive topics forward.
Your Experience: Your experience in building modern data pipelines and data products forms the basis for scalable data solutions.
Your Interest: Your interest in deeply understanding technical issues ensures that you holistically understand data requirements and your ability to precisely analyze complex matters allows you to quickly develop functioning solutions iteratively.
Your Skills: Your very good knowledge of SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake enables you to efficiently and robustly model data. Experience with Spark or Snowpark is an additional plus.
Your Proficiency: Your confident use of Git, CI/CD, Terraform, and cloud technologies (GCP) shows that you master modern engineering workflows.
Your Understanding: Your understanding of modern engineering standards and data architectures helps you develop sustainable solutions.
Your Language Skills: You communicate confidently in German and English.

What We Offer

The REWE Group, one of Europe's largest trading and tourism conglomerates, offers unique conditions for all those who want to make a difference. Discover a down-to-earth employer who trusts you, offers scope for shaping, and promotes innovations and fresh ideas through flexible structures. Those who move a lot with us can also expect a lot:

Attractive Compensation: With special benefits such as vacation and Christmas bonuses, asset-linked benefits, occupational pension scheme, subsidies for canteen and discounted Germany Ticket, as well as advantages for bicycle leasing.
Employee Discounts: At REWE, PENNY, toom Baumarkt, and DER Touristik.
Work-Life Balance: With flexible working hours without core times, home office, time-out models, company kindergartens, modern parent-child offices, support in finding childcare and care, and more.
Personal Development: With comprehensive seminar offerings, subject-specific academies, tech talks, e-learning, and participation in conferences and hackathons.
Health Management: With preventive examinations, sports, health, and cooking courses.
Agile Environment: Collaboration with agile development teams in the big data context.
Networked: Company-wide networks of the REWE Group, such as our LGBTIQ network "DITO – different together" and the women's network "f.ernetz" for exchange on career and personal development.

For more information, visit jobs.rewe-group.com.

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3. Invitation to Interview

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Data Product Engineer (m/w/d)

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