Data Berlin #26
Spring is around the corner; here’s what’s new in Berlin data.
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics have wrapped up, the last snow is melting into questionable sidewalk puddles, and Berliners are once again pretending 12°C is t-shirt weather.
While the city comes out of hibernation, the data market clearly never slept: new roles across analytics, platform and AI just dropped, there’s a hands-on meetup to get your brain back into building mode, and a fresh batch of reads for those first long, bright evenings that don’t end at 4pm anymore.
Less darkness, more data: let’s get into it!
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📖Interesting Readings
After 40 years of the same data-modeling messaging, 89% of practitioners still struggle—so the problem is how we teach and who has ownership, not “people not getting it.” – The Insanity of Data Education
Rushing dashboards past validation trades long-term cost and risk for short-term speed; push back with trade-offs or document who owns the risk. – Why 'Hurry Up' is Bankrupting Your Data Strategy
If you’re building or evaluating AI analytics agents, Metabase’s post shows why “perfect in isolation” parts break in production and how to fix it: treat the system as context engineering, give the LLM clear signals at each step, and design for messy data and vague questions—not demo benchmarks. – Lessons learned from building AI analytics agents: build for chaos
Data engineering isn’t turning into AI engineering—it’s expanding: pipelines now feed RAG, agents, and observability, and “quality” means semantic context for LLMs, not just correct types, so fixing old shortcuts (docs, metadata, tests) is what makes AI systems work. – What A Time To Be A Data Engineer (On Steroids)
☕ Upcoming Meetups & Events
https://www.meetup.com/berlin-apache-kafka-meetup-by-confluent/events/313022990/
February 25 — Hallo, Berlin – Introducing Intercom R&D 📨
February 26 — Hallo, Berlin – Introducing Intercom R&D 💾
March 10 — Hands-On Data Engineering: From Zero to Billion-Row Analytics — Berlin DataTalks Club ⚙️
March 10 — March Members Talk Evening — PyLadies Berlin 🧾
March 18 — PyBerlin 59 - March event🗣️
💼 This Week’s Job Picks
📈 Data Analyst
Senior Data Analyst — Neko Health → Apply here
Senior Data Analyst — Siemens → Apply here
Data Analyst — SumUp → Apply here
(Senior) Data Analyst — Clariness → Apply here
🛠️ Analytics Engineer
Senior Analytics Engineer — Contabo → Apply here
Senior Analytics Engineer — SumUp → Apply here
Analytics Engineer — Almedia → Apply here
Junior Analytics Engineer (BI + Data Modelling) — Ninox Software → Apply here
📊- Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer — 4flow → Apply here
Data Engineer — MOIA → Apply here
Data Engineer — GetYourGuide → Apply here
Senior Data Engineer — Getsafe → Apply here
🤖 AI / ML / LLM
Senior AI Engineer — Riverty → Apply here
Senior AI Agent Engineer — Zendesk → Apply here
Senior Data Scientist — Intercom → Apply here
Machine Learning Engineer, Dash — Dropbox → Apply here
And that’s a wrap for this issue.
If you landed a new role, opened a position in your team, are hosting a meetup, or wrote something worth reading on the U-Bahn ride home, send it our way.
Same place, next week, finally with lighter jackets and even bigger data news ☀️
See you next week,
-The Data Berlin Team