Data Engineer

At Nordic Entertainment Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production companies. From live sports and films to music and our own original shows, our purpose is to tell stories, touch lives and expand worlds. We’re now launching our Viaplay streaming service in a wide range of new markets and aiming to become the international streaming challenger. As a Nordic company with a global perspective and clear values, we’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey.

The position

As a Data Engineer with Viaplay you will join our Data Science Division which is a central initiative supporting Nordic Entertainment Group. Our mission is to provide our commercial and product departments with solutions for our data lake, product embellishment and analytics. As a member of the Data Engineering team you will work with a solid and mature Big Data architecture hosted in AWS Cloud using open-sourced environment and work with the following coding languages: Java, Python and Scala.

The journey ahead
In the last year, we have brought Viaplay to Iceland, the Baltics, Poland, the US and will go live in the Netherlands and UK in 2022. By the end of 2023, we will be live in 16 countries.

Some of your daily tasks will include - but not be limited to:

- Discussing with team on data lake infrastructure and architecture

- Building and maintaining data lake infrastructure and architecture
- Handling huge amounts of datasets coming directly from our Viaplay product
- Drive changes in our development processes that affect business decisions.

- Engineer solutions which will in turn enhance features in the services such as our recommendation engine.
- Creating, maintaining and investigating hundreds of data pipelines


What we are looking for

To be our next colleague, we believe you are currently either working as a Data Engineer, or as a Software Engineer and want to learn more about Big Data and its principles.

Ideal candidates also meet the following requirements:

- Experience with Python and/or Java development.
- Experience or knowledge in Infrastructure development for Big Data architectures (EMR, SPARK, Airflow, Presto, et.al.).
- Know the inner workings of the ETL/ELT process and software development.
- Cares about the holistic perspective, the end result, and how your work will impact the users.
- Able to share knowledge and communicate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- A commitment to testing, code review and other quality-oriented practices and supporting workflows are also highly valued.
- A good attitude, sense of humor, and ability to work humbly with others in a creative team environment.


Bonus qualifications that makes you stand out from the rest

- Experience with CI/CD using Github.
- Experience working with cloud tech, specifically experience in AWS and its plethora of services.
- Experience in handling and fetching everything from traditional, relational data to semi- or unstructured data.
- Experience working with containerized solutions.
- EXASOL or any other databases.
- Knowledge in SQL.
- Knowledge in Scala.
- Experience with Real-Time processing architecture (Flink, Kinesis or similar).




What we offer you
Our HQ is in Stockholm, but our market is the Nordics. You will become part of an amazing company with great people, content, and culture. Some of the benefits we offer you when working here are:

- A hybrid and flexible work model to make it able to work part-time remotely.
- An agile approach, freedom to try out new things, and independent decision-making by our autonomous teams.
- A place to grow and learn from our mistakes. We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks, pair programming and mob programming.
- An innovative environment with hack days two times a year.
- An international and diverse environment with people from all over the world working here. We have 35+ different nationalities in the office coming from different backgrounds.
- An attractive offer with a beneficial occupational pension plan, insurance plan, health care, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible work hours and parental leave pay lift.


Hit Play on your career!

If this feels like your kind of challenge, please apply and attach your CV and cover letter. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Karl Saeter at karl.saeter@nentgroup.com.

Nordic Entertainment Group AB (publ.) (NENT Group) is committed to equality and diversity and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be - so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make that would be helpful for you.

Nordic Entertainment Group AB (publ.) (NENT Group) is the Nordic region’s leading entertainment provider. We entertain millions of people every day with our streaming services, TV channels and radio stations, and our production companies create content that is experienced around the world. We make life more entertaining by telling stories, touching lives and expanding worlds - from live sports, movies and series to music and original shows. Headquartered in Stockholm, NENT Group is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (‘NENT A’ and ‘NENT B’).