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Nice to meet you!\nFirst, a little bit about what I like the most about working atZurich Technology Delivery Center: The environment here is incredibly collaborative and innovative. Our tech-driven mindset fosters continuous learning and growth, creating an atmosphere where everyone can thrive. Now, I can't wait to share this exciting journey with you at Zurich!\nFirst of all, THANK YOU for considering our company. We understand that finding the right opportunity can be tough, but I’ll try to make it easier.\nWho Are We?\nLet me introduce us. You’re reading about Zurich Insurance Group, a global leader in insurance, but this role specifically pertains to our Technology Delivery Center (TDC). Established in Barcelona in 2006, the TDC operates as an integral part of Zurich Insurance Group, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and support to Zurich's local and global business units.\nIn essence, Zurich TDC is where technology meets the vast reach of a multinational company. 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I’m glad you asked.\nAs a Databricks Platform Engineer you will have the opportunity to:\nOwn and evolve the Databricks platform that underpins the Zurich Global Finance Data Hub, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.\nDesign, build, and maintain data ingestion frameworks supporting batch, streaming, API, and CDC data integration patterns across multiple source systems.\n Develop and manage Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines, implementing data quality controls, expectations, schema enforcement, and change data capture processes.\nAdminister and optimise Delta Lake environments, including performance tuning, schema evolution, time travel, VACUUM, and OPTIMIZE operations.\nImplement and manage Unity Catalog governance practices, including access controls, data lineage, data classification, and namespace management.\nBuild, deploy, and support Databricks Workflows for orchestration of complex multi-task pipelines, dependency management, retries, and event-driven processing.\nEstablish and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git-based development practices and Databricks Asset Bundles to promote code across development, testing, and production environments.\nCollaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using AWS CloudFormation or CDK.\nManage authentication and authorisation mechanisms, including AWS IAM roles, instance profiles, service principals, secret management, and credential rotation processes.\nMonitor platform health, performance, operational metrics, and costs using Databricks system tables, CloudWatch, Grafana, and related observability tools.\nDefine and enforce cluster policies, compute strategies, and DBU governance controls to optimise platform utilisation and expenditure.\nEnsure platform security through the implementation of PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, row-level security, and column-level security controls.\nPartner with data engineering, finance, architecture, and product teams to deliver a robust and scalable enterprise data platform.\nDrive platform best practices, technical standards, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across the data ecosystem.\nWhat Makes You a great Fit?\nWhile we’re not seeking perfection or expecting you to save the world, we believe that if you meet some of these requirements, you’ll be a fantastic fit for our team. 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Don’t wait any longer! Apply by sending yourCV in English.\nIf not, no worries! We’ll meet again in the future. Feel free to share my contact details with anyone you think would be a great fit.\nAt Zurich, we are an equal opportunity employer. We attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available, regardless of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.\nZurich Technology Delivery Center - Your Talent, Our Strength\nYou are the heart & soul of Zurich!\nAt Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. 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