Big Data Engineer for the Services Analytics Plateau (d/f/m)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, DevOps, Jenkins, Pandas, Apache Airflow, R Programming, PySpark, Bash scripting, C# Programming, ETL frameworks

Job Description

The successful applicant will join the department TASSI6 Data Diagnostics & Analysis Systems.

The project you will be working on introduces Airbus Defence and Space's Analytics capabilities to our largest customers. The project is the cornerstone of data consolidation and analytics for the Eurofighter programme. It delivers improved performance and customer experience and enables a rapid understanding of the potential of digitalisation for our customers.

You will be at the forefront of further developing our Data Analytics solutions. The main task will be to find new ways to address challenges with data and digital technologies and support the creation of new services.

We are in production and already have a large pool of data.

Your location

Located about an hour’s drive north of Munich, Manching is an up-and-coming market town that offers a wide range of leisure and cultural activities. Here, you can enjoy the quality of life in the countryside while the pleasures of near-by cities are still within easy reach.

Your benefits

• Attractive salary including holiday pay, Christmas bonus and profit sharing
• 30 days holidays and extra days-off for special occasions
• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects
• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, public transport subsidy, discounts at local businesses
• On-site-facilities: Medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria, kindergarten nearby

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Collecting data and data wrangling, i.e. transforming, cleansing and linking with other data
• Provide data sets for (machine learning) data models; determine relationships between data source attributes
• Apply data mining techniques and perform statistical analysis
• Development and implementation of prototypes, e.g. in Python and Bash, Java or similar
• Support in the implementation of proof-of-concept and projects within the Military Air Systems Community
• Promote new working methods and new data governance models

Desired skills and qualifications

• M.Sc. or equivalent in Computer Science or a similar field
• Expertise in data integration and management, in particular in the automated integration of a variety of data sources as well as a Secure handling of the usual software engineering practices: continuous integration (Jenkins, etc.), DevOps (Ambari, etc.), version control (git, etc.), code quality (pylint, etc.), design reviews, ETL (Airflow, etc.), testing (DocTest, pyTest, etc.)
• Expertise in automated data pre-processing
• Knowledge of HDFS or other file systems
• Deep knowledge of programming in Python (in particular: pySpark, pandas, matplolib, sci-kit learn, etc.); ideally also working knowledge of C# and/or R
• Being fluent in English; knowledge of German is not strictly necessary but recommended