Data Engineer to Autonomous Drive - Data management team

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.

What’s in it for you?
Safe Vehicle Automation develops and delivers leading Safety and Autonomous Driving functionalities. Our purpose is to increase the road safety by developing and delivering Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Drive (AD), Vehicle Motion and Control, and Protective Safety. We even control the vehicle’s 6 degrees of freedom of movement in the most energy efficient way, creating a rewarding and confident drive and ride experience.
We are now starting up a new Data Management team with support for the whole Safe Vehicle Automation unit. The team is set up within Our Agile Release Train for Autonomous Drive and Pilot Assist, which develops functions, performs verification and validation and is responsible for the overall safety of these functions. Our autonomous technology will take driving safely to a new level and to make this happen we need talented people on-board!  
We are now looking for Data engineers to our Data Management team.
We offer an environment where we learn every day, challenge each other, and give continuous feedback. Your long-term competence plan will include steps to expand your knowledge and contributions within many competence areas that are within your interest or needed in the team.
What you will do
At Volvo Cars, we have an agile organization. The agile culture provides the tools needed to empower and engage teams to achieve great levels of productivity and quality. Be part of a data architecture and engineering team, dedicated to set and execute data strategy and architecture across Safe Vehicle Automation at Volvo cars. Increase development productivity and recourse usage efficiencies by creating tools, methods, and pipelines that facilitate processing and management of raw data at scale. You will develop, test, and maintain data architectures such as databases and large-scale processing systems, considering our technical and business needs.

Do you fit the profile?
You have experience in working with data engineering and have a deep understanding of the problem space and have a hands-on experience of working with large real-world datasets. A broad overview and strong data architecture skills are required.
* You have strong programming skills in Python. Having experience with Scala and Java is a merit.
* You have knowledge and experience of various database systems and data warehouse solutions. You have experience in building data ETL pipelines, in addition to design and execution of data quality KPIs.
* You have experience in big data platforms, Spark and Hadoop.
* You are comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers, preferably Microsoft Azure or AWS.
* Knowledge in Elasticsearch, as well as experience with workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow is meritorious.
* M.Sc. degree or higher. Good knowledge in English language both spoken and written, as well as a driver’s license (B), is required for the role.
* Having knowledge of GDPR and data privacy, and how to apply them in the context of data engineering is a merit.

As for your personal qualities, we see that you are;
* Self-driven team player with high ambitions. As a person, you are curious, innovative, and entrepreneurial.
* You care about the people around you, and get things done. You appreciate agile software processes, data-driven development, and enjoy the develop-learn-iterate process.
* You have great communication and presentation skills and are open to share and collaborate.
* We believe that you have a drive to learn continuously and are flexible to broaden your experience to fit the agile way of working.