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EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

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Ecotrek, an EcoVadis company, is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team in Berlin. Ecotrek was acquired in July, 2022, to complement EcoVadis’ portfolio of solutions by enhancing technical capabilities, improving customer experience, and expanding visibility with robust information about trading partners.

Ecotrek’s sustainability data mining capabilities make it possible to automate the gathering and integration of sustainability data into business processes. This gives EcoVadis unmatched access to company-specific insights to understand environmental, social and ethical risk and opportunity, providing even faster and more robust risk visibility for organizations across the entire supply chain.

In this new role, you will be reporting to the Engineering Manager and your responsibilities will include:

• Participating in the overall design, architecture, and integration of our data systems
• Building, maintaining and running secure cloud-native data collection, ETL and analytics pipelines
• Provide APIs in our ecosystem to help build user-facing applications on top of our data backends
• Representing our KPI-driven data development and assure & monitor our data quality & transparency goals for the highest impact possible
• Engaging in our data-driven development processes
• Guiding, implementing and supporting generation of synthetic and human-labelled training data and advance preprocessing algorithms and improving our data collection & classification processes
• Being an example of our company culture and values

As the role evolves you might also expect to:

• Create reports on qualitative and quantitative properties of new data, e.g. distribution of labels and overlaps of training data
• Batch processing and data streaming with tools such as Kafka, Snowflake, Spark etc.

• Experience in bringing data products to market
• Master’s degree or higher in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field (or equivalent in working experience)
• Demonstrable, KPI-driven data leadership experience with a history of strong decision-making skills; prior experience managing and supervising tech teams
• Extensive experience in data engineering using languages such as Python
• High proficiency in cloud technologies & infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS and data technologies such as etc.
• Familiarity with Web-Scraping processes & frameworks
• Experience with different data sources like NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Min.io, Redis etc.) and Storage Backends would be a plus
• Experience with setups and maintenance of data lakes would be advantageous
• Fun, self-motivated, proactive and service-oriented personality with exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
• Fluent in English (German not required)

Location: Berlin

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Germany is full of talented professionals who are experienced in sustainability, customer success, sales, IT and all share a desire to change the world, one customer at a time. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.

Purpose-driven start-up team with scaleup benefits. We will support you with all the necessary office equipment, 30 days of holiday, 100% coverage of the BahnCard (50,2) in Germany, a semesteral wellness policy, as well as healthcare and pension contributions. Everyone at EcoVadis also receives a Community Service Day as becoming a leader as a socially responsible company is one of our top priorities.

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV and cover letter with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity and inclusion and does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.