Data Engineer, Data Products

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

IT professionals - KONE Corporation

To join the team developing the Data Foundation based data products for a KONE. Our Data Foundation based data products are key enabler in our digital transformation creating ability to develop new scalable analytics, AI and digital use cases by leveraging data across the whole KONE organization. Data products play a vital role in business value generation and driving optimized data architecture is crucial to ensure reusability of the data assets on the cloud based Data Foundation.

This is a hands-on, roll up your sleeves position that requires a passion for data, engineering and DevOps. In this role you will be doing hands on data engineering tasks from new development to resolving technical issues, maintaining and optimizing workloads. We offer a chance to work hands-on with state-of-the-art cloud technology in a global, multi-cultural work environment being located in our office in Pune. We approach multi-cloud data engineering experience, as your professional background.

We are searching for an enthusiastic person to join the team who is excited about developing own professional skills even further, learning new things and contributing to team success. An ideal candidate has a strong background in data engineering, SW engineering and data integration with modern multi cloud stack, but above all will commit to a DevOps mindset and reach goals together.

We are expecting you to take self-driven, proactive approach to your work, find & implement solutions, continuously looks for improvement opportunities in own area, solve problems, make decisions and share the learnings to colleagues. We want to work with people who enjoy teamwork, are not afraid to step out of their comfort zone, want to help others and share information.

To succeed in this role, following professional experience will play a key role:

• Master's degree in either software engineering, data engineering, computer science, or a related field
• Hands-on data engineering professional experience (> 3 years)
• Previous hands‑on professional experience in developing and maintaining data pipelines on AWS, Azure and/or Databricks. Working proficiency the the tech stack: AWS, Gitlab, Databricks for ETL, Airflow, SCL, Python, Scala, and DBT for developing ETL, jobs, AWS CDK and Terraform for IaC.
• Hands‑on development experience on lake house architecture based on Databricks and Delta Lake, multi‑hop medallion architecture to divide the data lake into bronze, silver and gold layers based on the quality and reusability of the data stored there, data product publishing in Unity catalog.
• Strong coding proficiency with multiple languages SQL and Python, additional language are bonus. Ability to write compelling code, technical documentation and visualize your technical design.
• Fluency in industry‑standard DevOps practices and tools.
• Practical experience in working with enterprise data landscapes and data structures: Structural data, non‑structural data, metadata, master data, transactional data, batch/NRT. Experience on enterprise data sources: Experience in woring with e.g. SAP ERP, Salesforce, Droduct data management (PDM), and many others.
• Way of working professional experience
• Passion to utilize agile development methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence, draw.io).
• Inbuilt cybersecurity awareness. Understanding on data privacy and compliancy regulations.
• Ability to work in global multi‑cultural team and effectively collaborate within the team.
• Ability to self‑organize, take accountability and be proactive, seek feedback, be courageous and resilient, and have excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Experience of DataOps and ITSM processes.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English language, and strong facilitation and communication skills.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co‑workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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