Data Platform Engineer - D&A Platform

Let's create the future together.

At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

What we offer “Specific to the role”
 

As a Data Platform Engineer in Data Platforms you will design, develop, and maintain robust end-to-end platform capabilities that enable data and analytics teams across the organization to deliver value from data, whilst building a culture of collaboration and data excellence. 

We are mandated to define and build a data platform based on modern technology to host our company-wide data mesh for the rapidly growing data community at Volvo Cars.
 

Main responsibilities “Specific to the role”

As a Data Platform Engineer you will be responsible for DevOps of business critical data platform capabilities in collaboration with the team, product managers and the data engineering community. 

By contributing with expertise and teamwork you will be instrumental in our mission to transform the data ecosystem to empower our company with trusted data.

We are in an early phase of our transformation journey so you will have a key role in contributing to our technical direction and forming a great team culture.  

Do you fit the profile? “Specific to the role”

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be an empowered member in one of our committed teams that develops our Data & Analytics platform in collaboration with other teams.  In this role, team contributors thrive best. You want to contribute to team commitments and are committed to learning and development. We envisage that you embrace agile working principles and enjoy solving problems. You should also have experience in software engineering, modern data stacks, cloud infrastructure and be fluent in spoken and written English.

Other key competencies for the position include:

• Experience in Python and in at least one other programing language (C, C++, Java, Javascript, Go …)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and development frameworks
• Experience in building self-service platform and tools from scratch
• Practical experience with Data Engineering and the accompanying DevOps & DataOps workflows.
• Experience with designing and delivering data platforms with built-in lineage, federation, governance, compliance, security, and privacy.
• Experience with containerisation technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes

Let's create the future together.

At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?