Data Engineer

NIQ is a publicly traded company, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights, delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms. NIQ delivers the Full View (TM).

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our growing Machine Learning team. You'll build and maintain the data infrastructure that powers our ML workflows, from raw data ingestion to model deployment.

Responsibilities

Design and build data pipelines/flows for ML use cases; Implement data versioning practices; Deploy and manage flows in orchestration tools; Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Manage Python dependencies (Poetry, uv); Deploy data scientists' scripts and models from notebooks to production; Implement data quality checks to ensure pipeline reliability; Optimize data processing jobs for performance and cost, particularly on distributed systems and cloud data services

Requirements

3–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer; Strong proficiency in Python; Experience with distributed systems for big data processing (Dask, Spark); Experience building ETL pipelines; Experience building reliable, maintainable data pipelines; Hands-on experience with GCP core data services (Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Build, GKE); Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar); Comfortable working in a Linux environment with Jupyter, Python, Git, Docker, SQL, and NoSQL; Strong experience with Pandas, SQL, and writing Dockerfiles; Professional-level English

Nice to have

Experience with ML datasets; Experience building data pipelines for AI models; Experience with LangGraph and RAG systems

Benefits

Flexible working environment; Volunteer time off; LinkedIn Learning; Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)