Data Engineer

As the talent market continues its rapid change, candidates' and client expectations of workforce solutions are also evolving. To navigate this, The Adecco Group (TAG) is working to differentiate its value propositions, creating closer candidate relationships and building a more strategic connection with clients. We aim to let ideas flow from one market to another while leveraging available data sources within and across Adecco Group businesses. We succeed by driving technology adoption and increasing development cycle speeds with integrated candidate and client feedback loops.

The Global Data Platform is mandated to consolidate data from across the global organization to power local business intelligence, analytics, data science, and the end-to-end experiences Adecco will offer to candidates and clients in the future. We leverage modern cloud-based data infrastructure and leading-edge tools like Snowflake, Databricks, and AzureML to provide a reliable and well governed set of data assets for the group. We also work closely with our internal partners to create and curate valuable datasets that dramatically lower the barrier to entry to data users.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to be a pivotal role in this exciting opportunity to build a true global scalable data infrastructure solution from the ground up. You’ll be part of a global cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full data pipeline lifecycle, from conception to deployment to optimization. As Data Engineer, you should be comfortable with creating large-scale data models and transformation pipelines, validating, cleaning, and deduplicating data from a variety of both traditional and cloud sources. You should also be a team player with a willingness to take on tasks from across the team’s responsibility when needed and a solution-orientated (get it done) attitude.

Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
 Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements
 Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
 Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using no-SQL, APIs, and ‘big data’ cloud technologies.
 Build analytics tools and datasets that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
 Work with stakeholders including regional IT and BI teams, other Digital Product platforms, and Data & AI teams to build effective integrations and support data-related technical issues.
 Keep our data separated and secure across the regional, business line, and client boundaries where required.
 Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
 Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

5+ years experience as Data Engineer or general developer role with similar experience
 Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant field preferred
 Proven experience in developing data pipelines and ad-hoc data extraction
 Excellent command of SQL and Python, R/Scala preferred
 Strong experience developing on cloud architecture, Azure preferred
 Familiarity with databases (e.g. SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB) and REST APIs and UI/UX design
 Demonstrable experience working in a multi-stage deployment, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code environments
 Cultural awareness and appreciation for diversity
 Excellent communication, organizational, and teamwork skills
 Proficiency in English is required; additional language skills beneficial

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident, and insightful.


Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit, and always advancing with a growth mindset -that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with unique perspectives on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together.

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We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi-brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posting date: 09-28-2022