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Data Analytics Engineer (m/f/d)

Basel Interim Home Office View Job Description
Join a highly skilled technology team delivering modern data engineering solutions within a complex financial services environment. You will design, build and optimize scalable data pipelines, support advanced analytics initiatives, and contribute to a long-term transformation toward modern data platforms and cloud-ready architectures.

Added 11/11/2026

  • Drive a major data platform transformation in financial services
  • Work with modern analytics, streaming, and lakehouse technologies

About Our Client

Our client is a well-established international organization operating within the financial services sector. Due to an ongoing technology transformation program, they are looking for an experienced Data Analytics Engineer for an initial 24-month contract with potential extension and an ASAP start.

Job Description

  • Design, develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and ETL processes.
  • Build scalable data solutions leveraging modern data engineering technologies.
  • Translate business and technical requirements into robust data architectures and technical designs.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, analysts and engineering teams to deliver data-driven solutions.
  • Support data migration initiatives and modernization of existing platforms.
  • Contribute to data architecture, governance, data quality and security standards.
  • Provide operational support and participate in an on-call support rotation.
  • Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts and promote engineering best practices.

The Successful Applicant

  • 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Analytics Engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python, Spark and SQL.
  • Experience building data pipelines in data warehouse, data lake or lakehouse environments.
  • Strong understanding of data modelling, scalable architectures and software engineering principles.
  • Practical experience with technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, HBase, dbt or similar modern data platforms.
  • Experience in Banking or Financial Services is highly desirable.
  • Exposure to workflow orchestration and streaming technologies such as Airflow, NiFi, RunDeck, Kafka or Spark Streaming.
  • Familiar with Agile delivery methodologies and CI/CD practices.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with technical and business stakeholders.

What's on Offer

  • Long-term 24-month contract with extension potential
  • Exposure to a large-scale data transformation program
  • Modern data technologies and advanced analytics projects
  • International and collaborative working environment
  • High-impact role with strong stakeholder visibility
  • Opportunity to influence future data platform strategy
Quote job ref
JN-112026-7142845

Job summary

Job Function
Information Technology
Specialisation
IT Data Analysis
Industry
Financial Services
Where
Basel
Contract Type
Interim
Job Reference
JN-112026-7142845
Job Nature
Home Office

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