Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
Statista, Hamburg or Berlin
The role
- Own the platform architecture. Shape and evolve the target architecture across infrastructure utilities, data product experience and federated governance, together with Data Architecture and Product.
- Build the Platform-as-a-Product. A standard ingestion framework, roles and permissions, cost monitoring per product and team, and agent/AI readiness.
- Make governance computational. Data contracts, quality gates, lineage and policies as code, enforced in the pipeline instead of by review. Monitoring, alerting, SLAs and incident handling.
- Deliver data assets to consumers. Standard output ports (API, MCP server, A2A, Kafka events) and a OpenMetaData catalogue for humans and agents.