Data Engineers in Munich
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Philipp Grunert
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
Any-Arlene Niyubahwe
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.
Michael Ternes
Last position:
ETL Developer at Insurance service provider
DWH for customer and financial data
- Extension of the DWH with new data sources
- Report development
- Data quality management
Methodology: Scrum
Tools: Atlassian Confluence & Jira
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
Programming languages: SQL, T-SQL
ETL: Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Frontend platform: PowerBI, Microsoft Reporting Services
Michael Thomas
Last position:
Senior Freelance Software Engineer — Enterprise Software & Data Projects
- Delivered backend systems, data processing solutions, and software integrations for enterprise business applications.
- Designed and implemented API-based services connecting internal platforms with external systems.
- Built automated processing workflows to handle large-scale structured business data.
- Improved application performance by 30–50% through database optimization, caching strategies, and backend refactoring.
- Reduced manual operational effort by 40–60% by automating repetitive workflows.
- Supported production environments through troubleshooting, monitoring improvements, and continuous optimization.
- Authored technical documentation and led knowledge-transfer sessions to support long-term maintainability.
Anitha Namineni
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at Accenture GmbH
- Designed, developed, and configured scalable data applications aligned with business processes and technical requirements.
- Architected scalable, cost-effective data architectures leveraging Snowflake across AWS, Azure and GCP, integrating dbt for data transformation and modeling.
- Built and maintained robust ETL Data Pipelines, ensuring high data quality for seamless migration and cross-system integration.
- Demonstrated strong expertise in SQL & Python with extensive experience in data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and streaming data processing; proficient in Git-based version control, CI/CD practices, and testing frameworks, with solid knowledge of data quality, observability, cost optimization, security, and data governance principles.
- Led multiple data migration initiatives from SAP HANA to Snowflake using a modular dbt framework.
- Designed and maintained end-to-end data transformation workflows using dbt on Snowflake, implemented layered data models, optimized performance, and ensured high-quality data delivery for business intelligence and reporting.
- Managed development, QA, and production deployments through structured version control and release management using GitLab.
- Integrated and centralized data from multiple sources including relational databases, flat files, Excel, and large-scale systems into Snowflake.
- Applied strong expertise in Sales, Marketing, HR, and ERP data domains, developing and maintaining relevant KPIs and reporting solutions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions on schedule through proactive issue resolution and effective coordination.
- Administered the Snowflake sandbox environment for Data Engineering division.
- Trained colleagues transitioning into data roles on Snowflake and provided technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
Manikanta Rangaswamy
Last position:
Data Engineer at Insurance client
- Design, development, and maintenance of end-to-end ETL pipelines for scalable and reliable data integration
- Support in data quality checks, testing, and migrations
- Development and maintenance of dbt models for structured, modular, and reusable data transformations
- Use of AI-driven development to improve ETL job creation and code quality.
- Development of CI/CD for automated deployment.
Hardeep Bhutter
Last position:
Sr. Data Engineer at Charles Schwab Bank
- Designed and implemented end-to-end data pipelines (batch & streaming) using Python, SQL, and Apache Spark, Databricks on AWS reducing ETL latency by 40%.
- Developed serverless event-driven ingestion pipelines using AWS Lambda and SQS, ensuring real-time data availability for downstream analytics.
- Leveraged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigQuery and Dataflow to manage cross-cloud data warehousing and analytics integration.
- Expertise in DMS (CDC, Full Load) and Airflow for scalable data pipeline automation and orchestration.
- Managed and customized data pipelines using Databricks, Airflow. Automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Automated data quality checks using dbt to modularize transformations and ensure production-grade data lineage, improving reliability by 30%.
- Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure GDPR and SOC2 alignment. Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architecture refactoring for scalability.
- Created and maintained dashboards in Power BI to provide actionable insights.
Axel Kraus
Last position:
Data Engineer & Business Analyst at Metafinanz
- Migration of existing data jobs from Cognos Data Manager to Tibco/IBI Datamigrator
- Migration data jobs parametrisation for dynamic runs
- Optimisation and cutting-back
- Regression tests
- Knowledge transfer and documentation
Marco Pennacchiotti
Last position:
Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Entrix
- Established and leading multi-year research roadmap
- Developed and implementing hiring plan for science and data
- Spearheading data engineering efforts in the company
- Led the team to deploy a new trading algorithm, increasing assets’ revenue of 18%
Maziyar Khorrami
Last position:
Data Engineer at MSD Germany
- Lead Architect to design and implement the data lake and ETL Pipeline using AWS Stack
- Performance Optimization of Data Ingestion of ETL Pipeline
- Development of Data Validation using Great Expectations
- Leading of the data migration for two sources exchanges
- Data Modeling in AWS Redshift
MLOps
- Model inference implementation by mlflow and AWS SageMaker
- Feature Engineering for the running ML Models ( Recommender Engineer, Clustering )
- Implementatino of Model Registry and artifactory using mlflow
- Historization an Profiling of the Input Data Using AWS Glue Crawler and AWS Data Catalog
- Feature importance using mlflow
Tech. Stack: Python 3, AWS Glue, AWS Step Fucntion, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge, AWS IAM Role, AWS SageMaker, AWS EC2, AWS Glue Crawler, AWS CloudWatch, MLFlow, ETL, Data lake, GitHub Action, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible playbooks (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, GitLab, SQL, PySparkSCRUM, Agile, Jira, BigData, VSCode, DBeaver, MSSQL, MySQL, grafana, Docker, Linux, Bash, MapReduce, Data Modeling (ORM), Pandas, YAML, SQL-Alchemy
Stefan Corsten
Last position:
SSIS Development at Stadtsparkasse München
- Replacement of a Java application and the Oracle DB for loading the internal WerWasWo system using SSIS.
- Development of SSIS packages to load text files into the database (SQL Server)
- Development of a database project for deployment on various servers
- Creation of queries to monitor the loading runs
- Development of a PowerShell script to automate the deployment of the SSDT projects.
- Oracle, SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on-premises, SQL Server Management Studio v21, Visual Studio 2022, SSIS, SSDT, PowerShell.
Himanshu Negi
Last position:
Principal (Data Scientist/Data Engineer/Gen AI Engineer) at Marktguru Deutschland GmbH
Architected an agentic, real-time offer orchestration engine where specialized agents (retrieval, pricing/optimization, and policy/guardrails) coordinate to personalise promotions across customer touchpoints using RAG with FAISS over Delta Lake and low-latency Databricks Model Serving. Collaborated with product managers and commercial stakeholders to shape the roadmap and evaluate emerging agent patterns for production.
Designed an agent-based data quality service that orchestrates schema detection, entity normalization, and validator/exception-handling agents to clean multi-retailer SKU feeds at scale. Wrapped model calls in PySpark UDFs for distributed inference, automated via Databricks Workflows and CI/CD.
Developed a multimodal, agentic extraction pipeline where vision, parsing, and compliance agents collaborate to derive brand, packaging, and volume from scanned images using Claude 3 Sonnet with Swin Transformer encoders. Orchestrated via Azure Event Hub with outputs persisted to Delta Lake.
Implemented a GS1 taxonomy classification service built around cooperating agents for inference, drift monitoring, and auto-retraining governance using Falcon 180B (LoRA-tuned) with a batch pipeline on Databricks.
Created a hybrid agent workflow where a retrieval agent surfaces candidate matches via embeddings and a reasoning/verification agent (Mixtral 8x7B) adjudicates receipt-to-SKU alignment, integrated into a streaming Databricks pipeline.
Built a multimodal attribute inference pipeline structured as cooperating vision-language, rules/consistency, and compliance agents to fill NutriScore, nutrition fields, and packaging types from names and images using LLaMA 3-8B with CLIP embeddings.
Developed a GenAI-powered orchestration system that ingests recipes from multiple websites, parses ingredients through structured extraction agents, and dynamically links them to real-time retailer offers via tagging, semantic reasoning, and business-rule agents.
Anton Klonov
Last position:
Head of Technical Overall Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of technical overall integration NSC (National Secure Cloud project with about 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces, basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG base.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that can create a private/mixed cloud of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management cycle.
As a foundation, it uses Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Hadoop.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are automatically configured.
The private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop stack with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 other ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be automatically installed on bare metal or commodity hardware without Kubernetes.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, database.
Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, RKE2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3s), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).
Mario Gmbh
Last position:
Software and Data Engineer at Plexify GmbH
- Architecture, design and development of an MVP application for a provider of specialized travel experiences
- Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Firestore, Firebase, Docker
Ben Spouse
Last position:
Data Engineer/ ETL Developer at Deutsche Bahn
- Developed data extraction from PostgreSQL with Talend ETL tool
- Developed SQL/PL SQL scripts and views as required for ETL process
- Used the GIT repository together with the existing CI/CD process for testing and production deployment
- Created and updated multiple complex ETL jobs for mapping tarif data into SQLite files for the Input Pool
- Extracted and transformed source data via an H2 DB into SQLite for MT and ticket machines
- Collaborated closely with requirements engineers and data managers in an Agile environment
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Data Engineers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Legal
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
77%
Doctorate
15%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
87%
Based on our profile pool as of 24 Aug 2026.
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Average rates for Data Engineers
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform. This is above the average across Germany (793 €, +2%).
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers. This matches the median across Germany (800 €).
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 24 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the role
What they do
A data engineer builds the data foundation that other teams depend on. They design pipelines that move data from source systems into warehouses, lakes, and reporting layers. They also make sure the flow is reliable, traceable, and ready for analytics, machine learning, and operational use.
Typical deliverables include:
- ETL and ELT pipelines
- Data models and warehouse schemas
- Batch and streaming integrations
- Data quality checks and monitoring
- Documentation for handover and support
Core skills
Strong data engineers know how to work with SQL, Python, and orchestration tools such as Airflow. They understand cloud data stacks, API integrations, schema design, and data governance. In many projects, they also work with Spark, dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Azure and AWS services.
What matters most is not just writing code, but building data flows that are maintainable. A good data engineer thinks about lineage, failure handling, access control, and how changes in source systems affect downstream reports.
When to hire
Companies bring in freelance data engineers when internal teams are blocked by backlog, a migration, or a new data platform rollout. They are also useful when a product team needs clean data fast, but does not want to hire a permanent platform specialist for a short or unclear scope.
This is common in Munich across SaaS, mobility, industrial tech, finance, and larger enterprise teams that run mixed cloud environments. Freelancers can join for a specific build, stabilize an existing stack, or help internal engineers hand over a production-ready setup.
Typical projects
- Build a new pipeline from CRM, ERP, or app data into a warehouse
- Migrate reporting workloads from legacy systems to a modern cloud stack
- Set up reliable feeds for BI dashboards and self-service analytics
- Improve data quality, logging, and alerting on broken jobs
- Prepare datasets for analytics engineering or machine learning teams
What strong work looks like
Top data engineers write clear, testable code and keep pipelines simple enough to maintain. They document assumptions, use version control properly, and make sure business users get data they can trust. They also know when a quick fix is enough and when the architecture needs a deeper change.
A strong data engineer communicates well with analysts, backend developers, and product owners. They can explain trade-offs in plain language and keep technical decisions aligned with delivery goals.
Freelance fit
Freelance data engineers are a good fit when speed, flexibility, and focused delivery matter more than long onboarding. They can work remotely on most tasks, but on-site sessions in Munich help when they need to align with data owners, operations teams, or security stakeholders.
For companies, the best engagement is usually a clear scope: one source system, one platform change, or one reporting pain point. For freelancers, the best projects are the ones with access to source systems, a named technical contact, and room to improve the setup instead of only patching symptoms.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Data Engineers.
A Data Engineer builds and maintains the pipelines that bring data from source systems into usable platforms. That includes ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing, and monitoring. The goal is simple: reliable data for analytics, reporting, and downstream applications.
Look for strong SQL, Python, and data modeling skills, plus experience with orchestration and cloud warehouses. A good freelancer should also understand API work, schema changes, and data quality checks. For many projects, experience with tools like Airflow, dbt, Spark, or Kafka is a real advantage.
A data analyst works mainly with business questions and reporting, while a data engineer focuses on the pipelines and platforms behind the data. An analytics engineer sits between the two and often shapes clean transformation layers for BI use. In practice, the boundaries can overlap, but the core responsibility of the data engineer is the data infrastructure.
A freelance data engineer makes sense when the work is project-based, urgent, or tied to a platform change. That is often the case for migrations, new warehouse builds, pipeline repairs, or short-term support during a peak workload. It is also useful when you need specialized stack knowledge that your team does not have in-house.
Many data engineering tasks can be done remotely, especially pipeline development, testing, and documentation. On-site time in Munich can help during discovery workshops, access reviews, or when the project depends on close alignment with local stakeholders. The right setup depends on how sensitive the data is and how much coordination the project needs.
A Data Engineer often works with SQL, Python, Airflow, dbt, and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Azure and AWS services. Spark and Kafka are common when data volume or streaming is part of the scope. The exact stack depends on whether the focus is batch processing, streaming, or warehouse analytics.
A good candidate can explain not only what they built, but why they chose that design. Look for clean code, good testing habits, clear documentation, and a practical approach to monitoring and failure handling. Strong data engineers also ask the right questions about source data, ownership, and downstream use before they start coding.
A freelance data engineer should clarify source systems, data owners, security rules, deployment access, and the expected end state. It helps to know whether the job is a build, a migration, a rescue project, or support for an existing team. Clear boundaries at the start prevent scope creep later.
The average hourly rate for Data Engineers in Munich is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 807 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Data Engineers in Munich, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 77% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Data Engineers in Munich have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Munich are German (93%), English (93%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Munich are Information Technology (93%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Retail (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Data Engineers in Munich are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (93%), and Product Development (67%).
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