Market research is the original data driven business. Incubated and spun-off from a university, we have earned the trust of the world´s biggest companies and leading brands - for more than 80 years. Today, everything at GfK starts and ends with Data and Science

We are proud of our heritage – and our future: Currently we’re on a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by cutting edge technology. In our Technology & Data organization, we are responsible for the entire lifecycle of our data-driven products.  

You still think Market Research is about questionnaires aggregated with Excel?

Wrong! Since we are providing high available data-driven software services on top of our petabyte-scale big data environments to clients all over the world, we are embracing all the great open source tools and services that allow us to setup, orchestrate, deploy and run our software anywhere, sparked by the commanding magic of our fingertips.

This is only possible with extraordinary people.
And that’s why we are looking for YOU! A passionate Data Engineer (m/f/d).

Job description

As a Data Engineer (m/f/d), you will join our team consisting of Web Developers, Java Engineers, DevOps, Solution Architects, UX Experts and Product Managers. Together, we are striving to design and establish highly scalable, cutting edge web-based products based on advanced data science methods and multiple market research data sources.

Maximizing the user experience while building highly efficient infrastructures is what matters most to us. Generating interactive predictions and simulations for our clients based on billions of datapoints is our daily business.

You will be collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them. You will also be responsible for integrating them with the architecture used across the company.

In that position, you’ll be looked after by Joachim, who is an experienced leader of Software Engineering, IT Operations and Product Management teams with a passion for encouraging team members to exploit their individual quirks to the benefit of the team.

Your specific tasks will include:

We look for a profile with complementary skills, such as:

On top, your English communication skills are great, you are a team-player and tech-obsessed, always on the hunt for the latest and hottest shots!

Why else GfK?

Our doors in our newly built open-concept office space are open for everyone and we are free of stereotyped thinking. The power of our team grows with the variety of individual perspectives and that’s why we need YOU!

Let’s design and shape our exciting future together. Right here. Right now. Together!

Just send an email to Florian

Link: http://www.gfk.com/careers/jobs-at-gfk/