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For data pipelines, cloud warehousing, ETL and ELT, streaming, and analytics-ready models: get vetted data engineers who can work with your stack and deliver clean, reliable data flows fast.

About the role

Data pipelines

A data engineer builds the paths that move data from source systems into reliable targets. That includes batch and streaming pipelines, ingestion jobs, transformations, orchestration, and monitoring. Strong work here keeps analytics, reporting, and machine learning teams from fighting broken data.

  • Design and build ETL or ELT workflows
  • Connect SaaS tools, databases, APIs, and event streams
  • Clean, standardize, and model raw data
  • Add logging, checks, and alerts for failures
  • Document data flows and handover steps

Core skills

A strong Data Engineer knows how to work across data engineering, software engineering, and analytics. The best freelancers understand data modeling, schema design, performance tuning, and how to make pipelines maintainable instead of fragile.

  • Python, SQL, and version control
  • Spark, dbt, Airflow, and similar workflow tools
  • Cloud data stacks such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Data warehouses and lakehouse setups
  • API integration, testing, and error handling

Typical projects

Companies bring in a data engineer for platform build-outs, migrations, and urgent fixes. Common work includes moving reports to a modern warehouse, building a central source of truth, preparing data for BI dashboards, or setting up streaming data for product and operations teams. In Germany, this often sits close to manufacturing, e-commerce, mobility, finance, and SaaS teams that need dependable data across systems and languages.

When freelance makes sense

A freelancer is a good fit when the workload is project-based, the stack changes quickly, or the team lacks a specific skill for a short period. This is common when a company needs help with a warehouse migration, a new cloud setup, or a pipeline that only one person understands. Remote collaboration works well for most tasks, while on-site time can help when data access, security reviews, or stakeholder workshops are sensitive.

What good looks like

Strong data engineers do more than ship code. They ask where the data comes from, who uses it, what breaks, and how to keep it trustworthy over time.

  • Writes readable, tested, production-ready code
  • Thinks about data quality, lineage, and recoverability
  • Communicates clearly with analysts, engineers, and business owners
  • Spots bottlenecks before they become incidents
  • Delivers work that others can maintain

Tools and handover

The right Data Engineer can fit into your existing stack without forcing a rewrite. Look for experience with your warehouse, orchestration layer, and deployment process, plus the ability to explain trade-offs in plain language. Good handover includes runbooks, pipeline diagrams, ownership rules, and clear next steps for your team.

Meet FRATCH Data Engineers

Fadi Shoaa

Fadi Shoaa

AI Engineer | Microsoft Fabric | Data Engineering | Enterprise AI | Document AI

Oberhausen

Last position:

Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer

  • Development of a production-ready enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
  • Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing company processes
  • Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
  • Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a foundation for analytics and machine learning models
  • Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
  • Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production operations
  • Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

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Henning Uiterwyk

Henning Uiterwyk

Senior Expert Data Governance, Master Data Quality and Data Migration

Leichlingen (Rheinland)

Last position:

Senior Expert Data Governance, Master Data Quality and Data Migration at E.ON

  • Planning and implementation of a migration strategy for master and transaction data for the continuous loading of a cloud-independent database
  • Creation and pilot implementation of a company-wide Business Data Model for customers, suppliers, contracts, products, prices, consumption, invoices, and dunning
  • Concept and consulting for a Data Governance Framework incl. definition of committees, roles, processes, and metadata model
  • Operationalization of the Data Governance Framework with definition of data standards
  • Sub-project management in two pilot projects (PoCs) for Data Governance systems (ErwinDIS and Atlan)
  • Training and coaching the data team in migration, data quality, and data modeling
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Philipp Steidler

Philipp Steidler

Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Certified Data Scientist (XDI) | Digital Strategist

Rostock

Last position:

Solution Architect, Software Engineer, UX/UI Designer, Full-Stack Developer, Data Engineer, IT Consultant at Geigenbau-Meisterwerkstatt

  • A digital system made up of special software and hardware components. The overall system replaces the traditional process with job slips and handwritten notes and enables more efficient order intake. Orders and work steps for the violin-making company’s projects can now be recorded, processed and logged in real time directly on the workshop’s touchscreen PC, by mobile phone or on the desktop. This gives customers a more transparent view of the work on their instruments and allows them to track the status and progress of their instrument through their customer account.

Tech stack: next.js, React, Flutter, Dart, Raspberry, Linux, Directus

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Hervé Teguim

Hervé Teguim

Data Engineer & MS Fabric Expert

Oberhausen

Last position:

Senior Data Engineer at Schweizerische Post AG

Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python

  • Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
  • Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
  • Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform
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Farid Alam

Farid Alam

SAP_S/4 Hana Senior Consultant & Global SAP Process Expert for MDG/EWM/MM/PP-MES and SAP Data & Cutover Manager

Hamburg

Last position:

SAP Data Migration & Data Management Consultant for SAP GEMINI at Montblanc

The consultant's responsibilities/actions are:

  • Consulting on the migration of material master & PP Master data
  • Prepare Article List template for Cutover Phase
  • Implementation of data cleansing measures using individual and bulk changes
  • SAP all mandatory fields data extraction regarding Business needed
  • SAP migration, Cutover, Testing, BAT, UAT
  • Align with the multiple Stakeholders regarding Data from Legacy and SAP System
  • Deployed SAP MM best practice (guided configurations, active methodologies and road map for project initiation)

SAP ERP | SAP GEMINI | SAP Fields Coordination | Documentation | SAP IDoc | SAP Integration | SAP End-to-End Process | SAP MM (Material Management) | SAP Functional Consultant | SAP Gap analysis | SAP MDM (Master Data Management) | Data Migration & Management

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Alexander Zhirov

Alexander Zhirov

Senior Data Architect & Data Engineer

Berlin

Last position:

Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.

  • Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
  • Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
  • Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
  • Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
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Philipp Grunert

Philipp Grunert

Machine Learning & Data Engineer

München

Last position:

Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH

  • Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
  • Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
  • Development of LLM and NLP models
  • Creation of interactive reports
  • Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
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Julian Hillebrand

Julian Hillebrand

Senior IT Project Manager & Program Manager | 12+ years | AI, Cloud, Data, Rollout, Transformation

Solingen

Last position:

IT Project Manager AI product for automating knowledge-intensive processes at Leading provider of large-scale catering & food services

Project: Concept and implementation of an AI product for four business use cases

Project management of an AI project at a leading provider of large-scale catering and food services, where a production-ready AI product for four use cases was implemented together with an external development partner: automated briefings from CRM and document data, voice-based capture and structuring of reports, detection and merging of duplicates in master data, and data-based market analysis. A central focus was a privacy-compliant architecture that passed the internal IT security review and enabled productive use.

  • Translating business requirements into clearly defined AI use cases with a clear product scope and clear value proposition
  • Selecting and evaluating models and architecture options for text extraction, speech-to-text and context enrichment from business systems, including LLM integration, function calling and retrieval
  • Designing and enforcing an architecture with European hosting, data minimization and masking of personal data as a prerequisite for approval
  • Managing the interfaces between business, IT, IT security and the external development partner under restrictive data access conditions
  • Coordinating with CIO and executive management on data access, risk assessment and approval decisions
  • Preparing the transition into productive use
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Jorge Machado

Jorge Machado

Data Expert

Würzburg

Last position:

Technical Lead / Fractional CTO at Würth GmbH

I designed and developed an AI-powered multi-tenant platform on Azure that transforms SAP process recordings into technical documentation, presentations and automated tests, processing over 15,000 process recordings for enterprise customers like Würth. I owned the architecture, the production releases and the DevOps setup. I also designed a multi-tenant system with SSO and role-based access on Azure. Implemented an MCP Server with Dynamic OAuth Authentication.

Main Tasks:

  • Sprint planning and feature preparation
  • Design the multi-tenant platform architecture (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL row-level security for tenant isolation)
  • Develop AI pipelines with Prefect for transcription (Azure Speech API), document generation and SAP screen-recording analysis (Claude, gpt-4-mini)
  • Design and implement an MCP server to expose tenant knowledge to LLM clients (Claude), with async retrieval and reranking
  • Implement LLM cost tracking, rate limiting and client pooling for Anthropic/OpenAI/Azure OpenAI endpoints
  • Set up CI/CD: Docker images to Azure Container Registry, GitHub Actions, Azure Static Web Apps, Alembic migrations in containers
  • Manage production releases and execute live data migrations for enterprise customers
  • Define engineering standards and architecture patterns for the team

Environment: Azure / Azure Foundry / Python / FastAPI / Prefect / React / PostgreSQL

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Moez Seyedan

Moez Seyedan

Data Engineer

Königswinter

Last position:

Data Engineer at Loschelder Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB

  • Designed a future-proof client database for marketing purposes
  • Analyzed requirements, designed, and modeled an entity-relationship model
  • Consolidated and optimized a client file from various data sources for targeted marketing campaigns
  • Worked closely with marketing and IT in an agile environment to iteratively develop the solution
  • Technologies and methods: MS Office (mainly Excel), MS Dynamics CRM, MS SharePoint
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Anshita Srivastava

Anshita Srivastava

Data & Analytics Professional

Berlin

Last position:

Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst at Deloitte Consulting

Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.

  • Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
  • Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
  • Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
  • Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
  • BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.
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Any-Arlene Niyubahwe

Any-Arlene Niyubahwe

Data Analyst · SQL · Python · Tableau · Power BI

München

Last position:

Co-Founder · Data Engineering & Backend at zirikana (Kirundi Bible Web App) – Civic Technology

  • Built a Python pipeline that converts lectionary web content into structured daily JSON, applying liturgical-calendar rules for accurate weekday and Sunday coverage.
  • Shipped a read-only FastAPI REST API with shared Pydantic models and delivered a Kirundi-first web client for browser and mobile use.
  • Owned the data layer and backend architecture, collaborating closely on system architecture and interfaces while automating refreshes with GitHub Actions and validating the ETL with pytest.
  • Impact: Created a reliable, API-driven source of truth for daily Bible readings in Kirundi, enabling consistent access to previously unstructured content.
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Rodion Orlinskiy

Rodion Orlinskiy

Founder, CTO & Managing Director

Bonn

Last position:

Founder, CTO & Managing Director at MYNR Product Mining GmbH

  • Responsible for the architecture and development of an AI-native SaaS platform for industrial product portfolio management.
  • Designed the modern data platform architecture on Azure for scalable analytics and enterprise data integration.
  • Built enterprise data ingestion and transformation pipelines across complex industrial system landscapes.
  • Developed graph-based representations of product structures and dependencies for analytical reasoning.
  • Designed and implemented an agentic AI framework for AI-supported decision workflows.
  • Built scalable analytical microservices and integrated reporting through modern BI technologies.
  • Coordinated backend, AI, and frontend development across the MYNR platform stack.
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Alexander Bromberg

Alexander Bromberg

Senior Data Engineer

Köln

Last position:

Senior Data Engineer at RWE AG

Architected and maintained data products for renewable energy operations, covering wind turbine, grid-meter, and weather data. Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks using Delta Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers) and processed data in various formats, including structured and semi-structured data. Contributed to a data quality framework supporting table and column documentation, outlier detection, and completeness metrics across all datasets within a data product. In addition, implemented a DORA KPI Databricks dashboard used across all data products. Optimized CI/CD processes in Azure DevOps to streamline deployment across development, test, and production environments.

Technology stack: Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Lake, APIs, Dremio, Azure DevOps, YAML, Git, Databricks Workflows, Application Insights, Terraform, OpenAI API, Codex, LLM-assisted workflows

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Tobias Lewen

Tobias Lewen

Data Engineer

Berlin

Last position:

Data Engineer at unitb consulting GmbH

Tasks: Design and operation of end-to-end cloud data platforms for enterprise clients in publishing and finance, including infrastructure automation, pipeline development, monitoring, and data quality.

Activities:

  • Built multi-layer data architectures on Databricks (Apache Spark, Delta Lake), BigQuery, and GCP
  • Fully automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform across 3 environments (DEV/STG/PRD)
  • Developed automated data pipelines with Python, dbt, and GCP services for different data sources
  • Built monitoring and alerting systems for real-time platform monitoring
  • Implemented data versioning and quality checks at every layer
  • Designed automated test and deployment pipelines in GitLab and Bitbucket

Achievements:

  • 2× production data processing capacity, reduced spike response time from minutes to ≤15 s, server errors ≈ 0
  • Replaced 3,000 lines of manual configuration with a reusable automation module for 7 customer domains, configuration errors to 0
  • Delivered a complete end-to-end data platform at ~€10/month infrastructure cost
  • Migrated 7 database tables with 0 downstream issues
  • Removed 100% exposed credentials, eliminated external vendor dependency
  • Delivered integration of 3 teams in 1 sprint
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Data Engineers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years

Position duration

2.3 years

Positions per freelancer

12

Top business areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

92%

Master's degree or higher

63%

Doctorate

10%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

93%

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A Data Engineer builds and maintains the data flows that companies rely on for reporting, analytics, and operations. They move data from source systems into warehouses or lakehouses, transform it into usable models, and make sure it stays reliable. In practice, that means pipelines, checks, monitoring, and clear handover documentation.

A strong Data Engineer usually works well in SQL and Python and knows how to build reliable pipelines with orchestration and transformation tools. They should also understand cloud data platforms, data modeling, logging, and basic testing. For many projects, good communication matters as much as technical depth.

A Data Engineer prepares the data foundation; analysts and scientists use that foundation to create insight or models. If your problem is broken ingestion, slow pipelines, inconsistent schemas, or messy warehouse structures, you need engineering support. If the data is already clean and the challenge is interpretation, another role may be better.

A freelancer makes sense when you have a clear project, a gap in a specific stack, or a short-term spike in demand. Many companies use a Data Engineer for migrations, pipeline rebuilds, or urgent cleanup work that should not wait for a long hiring process. It is also useful when you need senior help without adding a permanent role yet.

Typical work includes cloud warehouse setup, ETL or ELT design, dbt layer implementation, streaming pipelines, and data quality automation. A Data Engineer is also useful when teams need to connect many systems or replace manual exports with a stable flow. In Germany, this often comes up in manufacturing, finance, e-commerce, and SaaS environments.

Most Data Engineers can work remotely because the job is usually done in code, queries, and planning sessions. On-site time can help during security reviews, access setup, or workshops with data owners and business teams. Many projects work best with a remote core and selected on-site meetings in Germany.

Look for someone who can explain their design choices, not just list tools. A good data engineer shows clean code, sensible naming, testing, monitoring, and a clear plan for failures and recovery. Ask for examples of pipelines they have owned end to end and how they handled bad source data or schema changes.

Freelance Data Engineers should clarify the source systems, target architecture, security rules, and who owns each part of the pipeline. It also helps to confirm whether the client wants fast delivery, long-term maintainability, or both. Clear scope early on avoids rework later, especially in mixed teams across Germany and remote locations.

The average hourly rate for Data Engineers in Germany is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 792 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Data Engineers in Germany, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 63% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Data Engineers in Germany have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Germany are German (98%), English (95%), and French (18%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Germany are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (56%), and Professional Services (41%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (92%), and Product Development (66%).

FRATCH Data Engineers main locations

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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