Data Engineer

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Who we are
The purpose, for Volvo Cars Service Business, is to enable a hassle-free consumer experience and drive loyalty by delivering a personal, sustainable and safe service experience through high quality and cost-efficient premium service operations. The automotive industry is currently under-going a significant transformation driven by changing consumer behaviors, technology shifts and digitalization. Within the department Service Business & Technology, we are applying our data driven strategy to prepare for direct consumer solutions and to move from reactive to proactive customer interactions.  

Data-Driven Service Business Development is responsible for developing solutions for proactive customer interactions aiming to; increase service penetration & customer loyalty and improve workshop effectiveness and efficiency. We are developing digital solutions by predicting the car´s needs based on consumer- and vehicle-data. We are also focusing on improving workshop effectiveness and efficiency based on data analytics.

What you will do
As a Data Engineer, you will be part of the team Data Driven Service Business Development. You will work with the development of a business backend system for data-driven decisions of predictive capabilities. You will build innovative products for predictive capabilities, with data, and you will support our advanced analytics needs, inform business strategy through data-driven insights. You are expected to understand complex business challenges, develop hypotheses, integrate internal and external data sets, analyze them and effectively communicate your findings. You will work in close collaboration with Data Scientists, product and business-owners, developers, and architects in the development of products and platforms.

You and your skills
We aim to develop products that are scalable and platform agnostic and we currently use Azure as our main cloud infrastructure platform. Therefor previous experience with Azure is highly valued”
You are comfortable in a wide variety of system and software development disciplines, including programming, system design and interfacing with databases. Python and SQL are the main staples in our work.

Some desired experience: 
•    MS Azure, DataBricks, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Cost management in cloud infrastructure.
•    Spark, Kafka, Docker, Linux.
•    Terraform.
•    Experience working with CI/CD.
•    Kubernetes, Hadoop, Elasticsearch. 

Understanding of what drives cost in cloud environments and how to build cost efficient infrastructures is required. Experience in developing and applying different types of infrastructures, from industrialized applications requiring high levels of elasticity to smaller applications integrating single datasets, is desired.  
We are searching for a highly motivated, creative and curious person that takes on tasks with an analytical, scientific and strategic mindset. Learning new skills and exploring new solutions is something you consider fun and rewarding. Having experience working close to, or with, analytics and with large data sets will be helpful to understand the challenges we face and products we will develop together.

On a personal level
As a person you are self-driven, independent, and able to take initiatives on your own, you see the overall picture and logical patterns, but are also able to go into a detailed analysis of things. You should have the ability to present your work and findings to an audience with different levels of knowledge.

Location
HQ Gothenburg, Sweden.

How to learn more and apply 
If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Senior Recruiter, Rinor Alihajdaraj via rinor.alihajdaraj@volvocars.com, Team Manager, Anders Brenke via anders.brenke@volvocars.com or Product Owner, Martina Steineck via martina.steineck@volvocars.com. Is this you? Do not wait with your application! We will start the recruitment process immediately. Kindly register your application as soon as possible but no later than 2021-10-29.