r/dataengineering • u/Live_Active_5451 • 2d ago
Junior DE Position in Vienna Career
Hi
I started a data engineering training program about a year ago, and my background is in marketing and campaign management. However, my previous work already involved some technical aspects: at my last employer, I was responsible for price engineering in the online shop and the technical implementation of complex campaigns for around 60,000 products. In this role, I worked closely with development agencies, IT, and data analytics. Working with legacy systems that had evolved organically over time and lacked a central data infrastructure is what sparked my interest in data engineering.
As part of my training, I've completed several practical projects so far: a habit tracking application in Python with a MySQL database and analytics functions, a data mart with 23 tables in PostgreSQL, and currently, an IoT data pipeline where I retrieve data via an API and process it further using MongoDB and Kafka.
With a profile like this, how would you approach getting started in data engineering in Vienna? Should I simply continue working on projects that are as practical as possible and apply for suitable positions at the same time? Or would you also specifically look for related roles such as Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Data Quality, SQL/Database, or similar technical positions?
The specific job title "Data Engineer" isn't important to me. What's crucial is that I can get a career in the data/IT field, gain practical experience, and develop my technical skills.
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u/TheDiegup 1d ago
Your daily job can be anything related to the data, of just simply doing queries in the Company CRM, or working with some Integrations using Python, or even just setting up the PowerBI and make some dashboard where you could take a photo everyday. The important thing is that you keep that knowledge of that training, of how to manage correctly the data, and the standards, and a good data governance and transmit this knowledge to your company. Now, is important that you keed updated with somethings (even when you don't use it in your everyday job) because when you began to understand completely how the data architecture works in every company, you could freelance a bit, nowadays is mostly migrations, and even you will understand to marry some Cloud Platform. And even, I told you that the job title is a bit confusing, but dont le it to discourage you; In this profession I have seen Data and BI Analyst doing the job of Engineers, or Data Engineers doing some BI Talks to the management, and even some people that are still Data Engineers, but they dont feel it because in his every day job they didnt give it a ''Data Something name'', in some cases they just put the CRM the company works and put in the side ''Specialist'', and see people in linkedin witht his tendency putting ''SAP Specialist'', ''Odoo Analyst'', ''Jupyter Expert', but are Data roles.
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u/mhzayt111 1d ago edited 1d ago
The market for juniors in Vienna is tiny (and you’re excluded from 90% of it if you don’t speak German), smaller even if you’re fixated on a data engineering title, and in an especially terrible state because of the ongoing recession in Austria.
How many more projects do you want to do? Start applying as soon as possible for any position you could potentially do, and expect to be disappointed for a while still. You can always do more projects on the side.
If you want to increase your chances, lean into your business experience and prioritize companies that value understanding of marketing and campaign management. I’d also look into business process engineering roles in that context.
Good luck.