Senior Consulting Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Plan and oversee the technical execution of data migration projects from start to finish.

• Evaluate source environments, establish migration strategies and timelines, transform schemas and data models, create pipelines, validate data, and perform production cutovers with minimal downtime.

• Design and manage CDC pipelines to ensure zero and near-zero downtime migrations.

• Utilize platform expertise across systems like Cassandra, Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, and other distributed NoSQL platforms to mitigate migration risks.

• Engage directly with enterprise clients, including architects, DBAs, platform teams, and executives.

• Take ownership of the complete consulting lifecycle from planning and setting the agenda to post-engagement follow-up.

• Highlight risks and additional opportunities to Sales and Professional Services.

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Engagement Managers, and account teams on migration opportunities, statements of work, and estimation models.

• Identify opportunities for customer services and workloads or estates suitable for migration.

• Develop AI tools for estate assessments, schema and data-model conversions, query and code translations, and data validation.

• Produce migration playbooks, reference architectures, estimation models, tooling enhancements, and team training resources.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering on the product and migration-tooling roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient fluency in German is essential.

• Exceptional analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving abilities.

• A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or consulting roles focused on data platforms and data movement at production scale.

• Practical experience with at least one of the following: Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon DocumentDB, or another distributed NoSQL platform.

• Hands-on experience with CDC and streaming pipelines, including Kafka or Confluent Platform, connectors, Debezium or equivalent, schema evolution, and understanding exactly-once versus at-least-once trade-offs, backfill-plus-tail patterns.

• Strong foundation in relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

• Proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Python, Node.js, C#, Go, or similar).

• Working knowledge of AI applications in real engineering workflows.

• Excellent skills in customer interaction and presentation.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort in environments where processes are not yet established.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee affinity groups.

• Fertility assistance.

• Generous parental leave policy.

• Supportive and enriching workplace culture.

• Necessary disability accommodations during the application and interview process.