Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

You have a passion for technology and want to make the world a greener place?

Join the forefront of energy transition wit h E.ON Software Development. As a professional services organization, we collaborate closely with our business units, providing pivotal services that accelerate E.ON's ambitious Digital Transformation strategy.

It’s on us to make new energy work!

The Team – your impact

Our Data & AI Products and Platform team is at the core of E.ON’s data-driven transformation. We build and operate central platform products that enable colleagues across business units to work with data efficiently, securely, and at scale.

As part of our platform strategy, Confluent Cloud is a key component of our modern event-driven data architecture. As adoption continues to grow, establishing a governed, enterprise-ready streaming platform is critical to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and compliance while enabling real-time data integration across the organization.

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer(m/f/d) , you will play a key role in shaping and operating the Confluent Cloud platform. You will work closely with platform architects, data engineers, governance experts, and business stakeholders to create a future-proof platform offering.

Your Role – meaningful & rewarding

• Drive the establishment of a central, governed Confluent Cloud platform across E.ON
• Design, implement, and continuously improve platform capabilities such as:

o Onboarding and provisioning processes

o Definition and implementation of governance guardrails

o Monitoring, usage, and cost transparency

• Enable business teams to adopt Confluent Cloud effectively through self-service capabilities and automation.
• Provide consulting and support to internal customers building event-driven applications, streaming data pipelines, and real-time integration solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling to ensure scalable platform operations.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and data governance teams to ensure compliance and enterprise readiness.
• Contribute to documentation, training materials, and community formats to drive user enablement and platform adoption.
• Align platform evolution with business needs and emerging technologies (e.g. event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, AI/ML workloads).

Your Profile – authentic & open-minded

• Degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience with cloud-native event streaming platforms, particularly:

o Confluent Cloud

o Apache Kafka concepts (topics, partitions, producers, consumers, consumer groups)

o Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing services (e.g. Flink or ksqlDB)

o Nice to have: knowledge about Tableflow

• Solid understanding of data engineering and platform concepts:

o Event-driven architectures

o Streaming data pipelines and data integration

o Batch and streaming processing

o Data lifecycle, governance, and schema management

• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and enterprise-scale environments.
• Hands-on experience with automation and DevOps practices:

o Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt)

o CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab)

o APIs and scripting (e.g. Python)

• Strong knowledge of security, compliance, and governance in cloud-native data platforms, including identity and access management, encryption, private networking, and audit capabilities.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud architecture and operations, including:

o Environment, network, and cluster management

o Private networking (Private Link / Private Endpoints)

o Cluster linking and multi-region deployments

o Monitoring, observability, and cost optimization

o Service accounts, API keys, RBAC, and resource management

• Experience with frontend some of the following technologies and frameworks for the continuous development of the self-service UI

o FastAPI

o Jinja2

o Alpine.js

o Tailwind CSS

o ApexCharts

o Cytoscape.js

• Experience supporting enterprise adoption of managed cloud services and enabling self-service platform capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills and strong service orientation.
• Fluent in English

Our Benefits – smart & useful

Enjoy flexibility:

• A stable work environment that offers you the flexibility to have a personal and fulfilling work rhythm.
• Flexible benefits package – choose what suits you best, from gym memberships to holidays, meals, or shopping vouchers.

Recharge your battery:

• 25 vacation days to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Private medical insurance to support your well-being.

Advance your development:

• Access to internal learning programs and online learning platforms to grow your skills and career.

This is by far not all… We are looking forward to speaking with you about further benefits during the hiring process.