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Senior Data Engineer (f/​m/​d)

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Senior Data Engineer (f/m/d)

Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

We are Uniper’s Finance Information Excellence team. Our purpose is to be the catalyst for excellence in how Finance uses data and AI. We create, enable, and maintain the pathways that connect data science innovation with finance expertise — turning business knowledge into advanced, data-driven solutions. By collaborating closely with controlling, accounting, internal controls, and IT, we ensure Finance operates with a trusted data foundation that delivers actionable insights leading to best-in-class financial decisions at Uniper. To help us achieve our mission, our Data Foundation & Enablement group is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to take a leading role in shaping the backbone of Finance data.

The Senior Data Engineer in Finance Information Excellence – Data Foundation & Enablement is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of our application-agnostic Data Model in Finance. The role secures the stewardship of our Data across the Finance functions and ensures it is high-quality, consistent, actionable and fit for purpose. In addition, the Senior Data Engineer is the key point of contact to other Lead Data Engineers across the Uniper group as well as our key technical liaison to the Uniper Data Council and its experts.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the application-agnostic data model in Finance, aligned with the needs of our Finance Functions, as well as group-wide standards, IT Architecture and our Uniper Business
  • Lead the assessment of the finance data landscape, identifying gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for optimization and harmonization
  • Build and maintain data pipelines, integrations, and transformation processes for finance data
  • Partner with our Data Scientists and Finance colleagues to translate business requirements into data driven solutions.
  • Establish and oversee data quality and governance frameworks across finance platforms and processes
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the Data Engineer(s) within the Data Foundation and Enablement pillar.
  • Collaborate with IT, platform owners, and data governance bodies to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
  • Deliver recommendations on data platform improvements, solutions, integration, and tooling

Your profile

  • Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data management, ideally in finance or a regulated industry
  • Strong knowledge of finance processes (accounting, controlling, internal controls) and how data underpins them
  • Deep technical expertise in SQL, data modelling, data pipelines and monitoring, ETL/ELT, APIs, and cloud data platforms
  • Experience with data governance frameworks and metadata management
  • Ability to influence other stakeholders on technical matters

Job ID:

88586

Location:

Düsseldorf

Type of contract:

Unlimited

Working model:

Full-time, Unlimited

Application deadline:

immediately

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Get to know your future colleagues

Valentina

EVP Operational Excellence

At Uniper “treating everyone in a fair way”, and “making everyone feel included” are serious topics. This is why we regularly seek feedback from our employees, we listen to them, and we make changes so that we can get closer and closer to our vision of DEI.

Valentina - EVP Operational Excellence

Thomas

Head of ETRM department

I was excited to join Uniper as it a give me the opportunity to be part of a large, complex and dynamic Trading Organization. The company trades a lot of different commodities in many markets with all their uniqueness, which ultimately requires many different IT tools and solutions. I enjoy working with traders and all the supporting functions in such a challenging environment.

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Navya

Lead Business Analyst

My passion is driven by the excitement of learning something new every day and a strong sense of pride supporting our Uniper business growth & Strategy. This is enhanced by the presence of a great team around me, whom I can always rely on for support.

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Mithun

Lead - Strategic Endur Solutions

Each day excites me with new challenges by driving various Strategic IT initiatives for our CCO Trading Business and accelerating the energy transition by decarbonising our portfolio. My motto: Entrepreneurship is trait that you live each moment! At Uniper, I can constantly challenge status quo and shape the environment around me.

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Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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Düsseldorf

Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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Düsseldorf

On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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Düsseldorf

On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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