Data Berlin #46
School holidays, empty offices, the best time to enjoy the city
Berlin has that pre-August quiet that lets you breathe. Schools are out, half the city is already on holiday, and those who stay get empty offices and coffee without the queue. The weather is back to being livable — 27°C, some clouds, nothing like the two weeks ago 40°C scare, yet.
The job board, though, didn't get the memo. New roles keep landing across data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML — if you're in town and want to use the calm to make a move, now's the time. This week: Tower opens a data plane in Dublin, dltHub launches Blueprints for agent governance, and Snowflake and Databricks ship a couple of GA features that make your life easier.
📖Interesting Readings
Agents will soon become the dominant workload for data systems. With inference costs dropping 50x/year, three challenges emerge: data systems for agents, data systems of agents, and data systems by agents. By 12 BAIR researchers including Matei Zaharia and Ion Stoica. – Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
Microsoft Research introduces Flint, an intermediate visualization language designed for AI agent generation: compact spec, compiles to Vega-Lite/ECharts/Chart.js, includes an MCP server. – Flint: A visualization language for the AI era
A soccer analogy to explain why overly rigid governance processes paralyze data teams: build guardrails, teach principles, then let them play. – Let Them Play: Rethinking Process for Data Teams That Need to Move
A new study from Ramp found that companies investing heavily in AI (≥$30/employee/month) grew headcount by 10% over two years, while low adopters saw no change. – Turns Out AI Isn't Coming For Your Job
A practical map of self-hosting DuckDB from laptop to full data platform: 5 levels, benchmarks at each stage, and the honest build-versus-buy line in the age of AI. Building got cheap, maintenance didn't. – Self-hosting DuckDB: the road to production
🚀 Shipping Now
Tower AWS eu-west-1 Data Plane — Tower's new data plane in Dublin brings compute to where your data lives, eliminating cross-region egress fees and slashing latency for European teams.
dltHub Blueprints — Composable data platform templates for agent governance, starting with agent cost tracking. Built for the 91% of pipelines now written by AI agents.
dbt Core Updates - July 2026 — Model query history for Redshift and Databricks is now GA, plus behavioral change flags maturing in September.
Snowflake Workload Identity Federation — Now GA: Snowflake workloads can access external services without managing credentials, using workload identity federation.
Databricks SQL Warehouse Activity Details — New GA feature: color-coded annotations on the running clusters chart explain why a warehouse stays active — query activity, open sessions, idle states.
☕ Upcoming Meetups & Events
Jul 15 — PyData Berlin July Meetup (PyData Berlin) 🐍
Jul 18 — {Tech: Europe} x Almedia Hackathon | The Summer Lock-In ({Tech: Europe}) 💻
Jul 21 — AI Builders Berlin (AI Builders) 🏗️
Aug TBA — Data Berlin Summer Meetup (Data Berlin) 🐻
Aug 13 — Python in Berlin BBQ @ c-base (Python Users Berlin) 🐍
💼 This Week’s Job Picks
📊 Data Analyst
Product Data Analyst – FREE NOW
Data Analyst Recommerce (all genders) – Zalando
Growth & Operations Analyst (w/m/d) – Enpal
Senior Analyst, Retail Revenue Operations – Toast
eCommerce Growth Analyst (all genders) – Distribusion
And more on databerlin.net/jobs/category/data-analyst
📈 Analytics Engineer
Senior Analytics Engineer, Marketing DSA – Vinted
Senior Analytics Engineer – Cosuno
(Senior) Analytics Engineer – Snowflake & Power BI – Europace AG
Senior Analytics Engineer - Finance & Operations – PERGOLUX
Senior Analytics Engineer (w/m/d) – JTL-Software
And more on And more on databerlin.net/jobs/category/analytics-engineer
⚙️ Data Engineer
Staff Software Engineer (m/f/d) Data – Axel Springer
Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) Data – Axel Springer
DWS - Data Architect (m/f/d) – Deutsche Bank
Data Engineer (m/f/d) – Jedox
Intermediate Fullstack Engineer - Data Products – GitLab
And more on And more on databerlin.net/jobs/category/data-engineer
🤖 AI / ML / LLM + Data Scientist
Staff Analytics Engineer – AI-Powered Analytics – emnify
Technical Architect AI/ML – Snowflake
Machine Learning Engineer – Integral
Senior AI Data Scientist – Qualifyze
AI Engineer (m/f/d) – adesso SE
And more on databerlin.net/jobs/category/ai-ml
🎯 Leadership Roles
(Senior) Manager Privacy & Data Governance (m/w/d) – Axel Springer
Lead AI Engineer (f/m/x) – Chief Strategy Office – Deutsche Bank
Director, Commercial & Growth Strategy, Own Brands – Redcare Pharmacy
Director, Business Intelligence – BeiGene
Sales Analytics Lead (x/f/m) – Sales Analytics Lead (x/f/m) – Doctolib
And more on databerlin.net/jobs/category/leadership
That's it for this week. Summer already started for some of us, others are lucky enough to travel when flights are cheaper, streets are less trafficked, and beaches empty. After a few fixes and automations, our job board has again more than 700 open roles across more than 200 companies.
Our next meetup will be in the second half of August, but there are a few interesting events in the city in the meantime (check the section above). Bring a friend, bring a beer, bring both.
That's it. See you next week, with more reading suggestions, more jobs, more cheesy GIFs. Stay hydrated.
— Data Berlin team