Data engineer to Wallenius Wilhelmsen, leading company in shipping

Data engineer to Wallenius Wilhelmsen, a global and market leading company in shipping and logistics.

About Us

The Wallenius Wilhelmsen group is a market leader in RoRo shipping and vehicle logistics, transporting cars, trucks, rolling equipment and breakbulk around the world. Listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, located in 29 countries and with 9500 employees, the group consists of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions, EUKOR and ARC.

Our Digital Vision

Fundamental changes are taking place in the logistics industry and Wallenius Wilhelmsen is gathering its forces to take full advantage of new opportunities.

Recognizing the central role that digital solutions will play across supply chains in the future, the Digital & IT team in Wallenius Wilhelmsen is expanding its digital function to deliver on our vision of providing Sustainable Logistics for a World in Motion.

 

Job Description
 

To strengthen our diverse talent-team in Digital & IT, we are currently looking for a Data Engineer within the Data Services EMEA & Oceania Unit.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen currently has an ongoing “data liberation” program, with the aim of optimizing our use of modern tools for analytics, AI so that we can make better business decisions through data driven flows. We possess a massive estate of data and data sources and need someone to own and gather retrieval, storage and distribution until stage of preparation by wiring in existing architecture and part take in the natural evolution to follow.  Agile teams are the working methodology, and we employ best practice through Azure devOps.

As our Data Engineer, you will be an integrated and vital member of the Data team, working closely with stakeholders across IT and external vendors (consultancies). Initial focus will be on marine efficiency, operational excellence for shipping and sustainability requirements.

You will also work closely with the group’s various Business teams to guide them in their needs for any data delivered fast, frequently and securely.

 

We believe the successful candidate
 

- Is passionate about data importance, accuracy and security with desire to help making a difference in the consumption end
- Has excellent knowledge of various database design /architecture, warehousing, modelling and mining plus knowhow of multiple programming languages, ETL, integration methods etc
- Is self-motivated and dare to take initiatives
- Is curious and continuously learning, whether it is new Digital trends or new technologies
- Can communicate clearly with colleagues and management who don’t have a technical background
- Is positive, open-minded and embraces change
- Is a team-player who is supportive of colleagues and enjoys working with different people
- Isn’t afraid to speak up and challenge the business and external stakeholders

Candidates will typically have a relevant technical education background and at least 2 years’ experience of working with Microsoft Azure or other hyper cloud platforms. If you also have experience of working in other sizeable data environments, we are particularly interested in talking to you. [Should we be more specific about experience of working with data lakes?]

We believe the successful candidate has around 5 years’ relevant working experience such that they are able to:

- Develop code to properly deploy into production environments with Quality Assurance
- Experience with Dev/Ops methodology is a plus
- Conduct data analysis and make correlations between systems
- Build Data Pipelines and experience in Data Ingestion
- Strong in ETL processes
- Experience with Big Data and IOT a plus
- Comfortably work with Power BI and BI analysis
- Work on different projects and drive them forward

If you have experience of AI that would be a plus!

We are not only interested in your past professional achievements but also you as an individual because we want you to be part of our diverse and inclusive environment!

 

We can offer you
 

- An opportunity to be a part of a global company that is transforming the logistics industry
- Digital Transformation is of high priority, you will be joining at the forefront and beginning of a major transformation
- A truly international and dynamic working environment with a growth mindset
- Competitive benefits

 

The Wallenius Wilhelmsen group is an equal opportunity employer that strongly believes in diversity and a values driven culture. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a global company with colleagues and stakeholders from different cultures and countries and where English is the working language.

 

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