Data Engineer

To strengthen our AI / Data team, we are looking for a Data Engineer that will play a key role in supporting us with data modeling, quality, validation, analysis, governance, warehouse and ETL pipelines. The position of Data Engineer is a full-time and permanent position based in our office in the Kraków, Poland. As part of our commitment to fostering a collaborative team environment, this role requires working fully on-site.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Data Pipeline Development: Assist in designing, building, and maintaining efficient data pipelines.

Data Modeling: Work on data modeling tasks to support the creation and maintenance of data warehouses.

Data Acquisition: Integrate data from multiple sources, ensuring data consistency and reliability.

Data Orchestration and DataOps: Collaborate in implementing and managing data orchestration processes and tools.

Data Monitoring: Help establish monitoring systems to maintain high standards of data quality and availability.

Team Collaboration: Work closely with the Data Architect, Senior Data Engineers, and other members across the organization on various data infrastructure projects.

Continuous Improvement: Participate in the optimization of data processes, seeking opportunities to enhance system performance.

Requirements

A university degree, ideally in Computer Science or a related science, technology or engineering field.

2+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering roles.

Experience in data acquisition, laking, warehousing, modeling, and orchestration.

Proficiency in SQL (including window functions and CTE).

Proficiency in RDBMS (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).

Strong programming skills in Python (with libraries like Polars, optionally Arrow / PyArrow API).

First exposure to OLAP query engines (e.g., Clickhouse, DuckDB, Apache Spark).

Familiarity with Apache Airflow (or similar tools like Dagster or Prefect).

What we offer

The opportunity to contribute to the academic/scientific community;
Flexible working hours;
Team bond strengthening through team-building events;
Professional growth opportunities with our global training system;
Working in a collaborative, diverse, and socially responsible team;
Company retreat facility;
Full-coverage insurance for accidents/daily sickness;
Prime location near Krakow train station and city center;
And more

If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving:

A motivational letter(EN) that briefly describes your motivations for joining MDPI
A resume(EN) including personal information, past & current education,
If available: reference letters and certificates.

About MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. We operate more than 400 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals supported by over 66,000 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and broadly available.

MDPI is headquartered in Switzerland with additional offices in Europe, Asia and North America. We are committed to ensuring that high quality research is made available as quickly as possible. We also support sustainability projects, with sustainability as a key theme in many journals and through the MDPI Sustainability Foundation.

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