Data Analytics Platform Engineer

Do you want to be part of Volvo Group’s exciting journey towards becoming a fully data driven company. Imagine yourself working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in the transport and infrastructure industry, developing cutting-edge technologies and sustainable transport solutions that will change the future of society.


You will play an important part in enabling our R&D organization to manage, secure and generate value from its data. Your main focus will be to support the ADAS DaaS project with data handling as well as designing a data analytics platform with similar capabilities for the ADAS engineers as already implemented in the Data Science Lab at Volvo.


It is about to create a scalable and reusable solutions for gathering, collecting, storing, processing, and serving data on both small and very large scales. Your will enable and maintain the Data Analytics Platform as well as providing user support. You will automate data integration for different sources to eliminate time spent on manual data processing in order to improve efficiency and productivity. As part of the data analytics team you will make improvements and add new features for the users of the platform at Volvo. You will be involved in all parts of the platform life-cycle that includes design, implementation and testing.


In order to be successful in this position you need to have experience from data analytics and platform development, preferred in transport/automotive industry as well as technical competence in platform development.
You are driven to deliver according to defined targets and agreed timeframes. You have good ability to work both in teams as well as individually.
Main Responsibilities
Close cooperation with IT application teams, Enterprise architecture, infrastructure, information security and stakeholders to translate business and technical strategies into data-driven solutions.
Develop procedures and methods for data processing and storage
Support implementation of projects and tools related to data analytics
Responsible that the platform lifecycle is properly implemented
Responsible for follow-up of decided requests for the platform development
General Data Technology watch and actively follow industry trends for data analytics related to data science
Collaborate within an international team of engineers throughout Europe, America and Asia

Education, Experience, Knowledge & Skills
This role requires a Master University degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or eq.
A proven track record in data analytics preferably within transport / automotive industry
Deep understanding and working experience of platform development for data analytics,
Extensive hands-on experience in Python modules, such as, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Keras, Matplotlib, NLTK etc. Experienced in using multi-processing and multi-threading using Python,
Experienced in C++ & SQL
Continuous integration and delivery, compilation workflow
Excellent skills of IT Solution including IT dependencies and interfaces
Curiosity and a strong ability to learn new technologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Merits:
Volvo group experience
Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive
Carla simulator
HPC knowledge

This position is located in Sweden