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Senior Big Data Engineer

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Mýtna 48, Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
3 000 EUR/monthFinal salary offer depends on your experience and requirements.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Our opportunity

We are seeking Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data Analytics & Architecture (EDAA) organization within Group Operations Business Transformation.

As Big Data Engineer, your main responsibilities will involve:

• Development of data processing pipelines using Spark/Scala.
• Develops and performs testing using Spark/Scala.
• Hands on development and monitoring of the Azure cloud Platform and various associated components for data ingestion, transformation and processing.
• Effectively diagnose, isolate, and resolve complex problems pertaining to data infrastructure, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Designs and writes programs according to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develops and maintains technical documentation.
• Follows established configuration/change control processes
• Generating insights from internal and external data sources, using a wide range of tools and methodologies, e.g. from building complex data pipelines to applying Semantics and/or Machine Learning

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

As Big Data Engineer, your skills and experience will ideally include:

• University level education or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer
• 2+ Experience in functional programming (Scala)
• 2+ years of experience in Apache Spark 2.0 (big plus)
• Knowledge of design patterns
• Ability to write complex SQL queries
• A good understanding of distributed computation
• Bash scripting
• GIT
• Experience in model development; in particular, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
• Some experience in text classification, entity extraction, clustering & topic modeling

Nice to have:

• Python
• Experience in R programming
• Experience with Hadoop technologies (i.e. Sqoop, Hive, Flume etc.)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (Azure DevOps)
• Experience in data exploration using notebooks (Databricks notebooks).
• Experience in automation of regular tasks(e.g. data refreshes) using bash and python scripting.
• Experience with Azure cloud.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with web-scraping is a plus

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Brief description of the company

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. Zurich Bratislava is a Slovakia-based Competence Center for highly specialized services in the areas of Life and non-life actuarial, risk management, business intelligence, IT application development and service management as well as insurance network. An international workforce of close to 300 colleagues is supporting Zurich’s Corporate Center and Business Units around the globe.

Number of employees

250-499 employees
ID: 4023276  Posting date: 3.5.2021  Basic salary component (gross): 3 000 EUR/month