As a Senior Data Engineer (m/f/d) your key responsibilities will be:

• Manage end‑to‑end data operations across warehouses and databases, ensuring data quality, reliability, and smooth daily execution.
• Design and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines supporting both operational and analytical use cases across on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Build and optimize data warehouses, lakes, and analytical stores, handling structured and semi‑structured data efficiently.
• Apply strong data modeling practices to design reusable schemas for OLTP/OLAP workloads, including documentation of lineage and transformations.
• Implement data quality, governance, and observability controls to ensure accuracy, consistency, and proactive issue resolution across platforms.
• Develop optimized SQL and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high‑quality data products for reporting, analytics, and downstream consumption.

We are looking for

• 15+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in data engineering, building and operating production‑grade data pipelines across large, complex datasets.
• Advanced SQL skills and hands‑on experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Informatica, cloud data warehouses, or distributed query engines.
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling, schema design, and integration across multiple data sources.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and observability, with exposure to enterprise data management standards.
• Cloud ecosystem familiarity, along with experience or exposure to automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills, with proven ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and agile teams.

Posting period: 27.03.2026 until further notice

What we’ll offer you:

Without the ambitions of our people, our achievements wouldn’t be possible. And it’s important to us that you enjoy coming to work - feeling healthy, happy and rewarded. At DWS, you’ll have access to a range of benefits which you can choose from to create a personalised plan unique to your lifestyle. Whether you’re interested in healthcare, company perks or are thinking about your retirement plan, there’s something for everyone.

Some of our core benefits:

• Physical and Mental Health Well-Being benefits including (but not limited to) Statutory Health Insurance (BKK), sickness benefit allowance and support helplines for employees

• Family friendly benefits including generous parental leave packages (supporting all variations of family set-ups) and support in finding childcare options including DWS’s own kindergarten service

• A wide selection of pension plans, Personal Budget Accounts to enable sabbaticals or early retirement and capital-forming benefits

• The opportunity to support our CSR strategy which is focused on combatting climate change & achieving greater social justice. You can make donations to our partnered organisations or take part in corporate volunteering opportunities in your local communities by providing on hand support.

• Mobility services, such as a subsidized Germany ticket and offers for company cars and JobRad

DWS’ current Hybrid Working model is designed to find the balance between in-person collaboration & engagement in the office, which is core to our working culture, whilst still remaining focused on supporting our employees with flexibility. We are committed to support flexible and hybrid working agreements across the globe. Depending on the location or role you are applying for, the split between working in the office and at home will be discussed and made clear as part of your application and interview process.

We will continue to review and evolve our working environments and methods to ensure that we are working in the best way possible for our people.

If you require any adjustments or changes to be made to the interview process for any reason including, or related to a disability or long-term health condition, then please contact your recruiter and let us know what assistance you may need. Examples of adjustments include providing a change to the format of the interview or providing assistance when at the DWS office. This will not affect your application and your recruitment team will discuss options with you.