Principal Data Engineer

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer.

We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

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!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT FOR US

As a global leader in our space, we are on a mission to transform from a traditional enterprise software company into a technology-enabled services business, while sustaining our track record of double-digit highly profitable growth. To further support, enable and drive this journey we recently established a new Strategy & Insights team within the Product Development organization, which we are now expanding.

Strategy & Insights is a new team responsible for decision making support across the organization, from engineering managers and product managers to senior executives. We are on a journey to become much more data-driven and we are looking for a Data Engineer that can work as a Swiss army knife and help build the data foundation needed to drive insights.

We are looking for a bold and pragmatic problem-solver with a high enterprising spirit. You will work in an agile and international team delivering actionable insights to the business with much curiosity and fun.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Design, plan, develop, deploy, and maintain data products for our internal stakeholders
• Build scalable data pipelines to support analytics and reporting needs in close collaboration with our BI developer and data analyst
• Manage and expand our data stack in close collaboration with other teams across SimCorp. You will play a vital role in expanding our technological capabilities
• Implement best practices for data quality, observability, and governance
• Lay the foundation for data workflows, automation, and self-service as we scale

WHAT WE VALUE

• You bring 6+ years of experience as a senior-level contributor in data engineering, analytics, or BI product delivery
• You're a Swiss Army knife of data: part architect, part engineer, part enablement lead
• You’ve worked across the stack - from ingesting raw data to delivering polished data products and understand the importance of good data governance, orchestration, and monitoring
• You’re comfortable working with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment, designing solutions that are scalable and pragmatic
• You’ve worked in an agile setup and know when to ship and when to polish
• You care deeply about data reliability and trust - and have a healthy obsession with naming conventions, documentation, and lineage
• Experience with the Microsoft data stack (PowerBI and Azure services - Data Lake, Fabric/Synapse, Databricks) and/or Snowflake
• Proficiency in SQL and Python; Scala or Spark is a bonus
• Business fluency in English is required
• Industry experience in software development and/or investment management is a plus

BENEFITS

Attractive salary and bonus scheme are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a work & private life balance: a hybrid workplace model and extra days of vacation. We also practice a tailored approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize 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 photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate 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 an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.