Data Platform 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.

Data & Analytics Core - let’s introduce ourselves 
The mission for D&A Core is to Transform the data ecosystem to empower our colleagues with trusted data, which supports the Volvo Data Vision of Powering innovation and every decision with trusted data.  

As a Data Platform Engineer in D&A Platforms you will design, develop, and maintain robust end-to-end platform capabilities that enable data and analytics teams across the organisation to deliver value from data, whilst building a culture of collaboration and data excellence. 

We are mandated to define and build a data platform based on modern technology to host our company-wide data mesh for the rapidly growing data community at Volvo Cars.

What you’ll do

As a Data Platform Engineer you will be responsible for DevOps of business critical data platform capabilities and golden paths in collaboration with the team, product managers and the data engineering community. 

By contributing with expertise and teamwork you will be instrumental on our mission to transform the data ecosystem to empower our colleagues with trusted data.
We are in an early phase of our transformation journey so you will have a key role in contributing to our technical direction and forming a great team culture.  

What you’ll bring

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be an empowered member in one of our committed teams that develops our Data & Analytics platform in collaboration with other teams.  In this role, team contributors thrive best. You want to contribute to team commitments and are committed to learning and development. We envisage that you embrace agile working principles and enjoy solving problems. You should also have experience in software engineering, modern data stacks, cloud infrastructure and be fluent in spoken and written English.

Other key competencies for the position include: 
-    Experience with infrastructure as code and development frameworks
-    Experience in building self-service platform and tools from scratch 
-    Practical experience with Data Engineering and the accompanying DevOps & DataOps workflows.
-    Experience with designing and delivering data platforms with built-in lineage, federation, governance, compliance, security, and privacy.
-    Experience with containerisation technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes 

Want to know more? We hope so

We’d love to receive and review your application. We welcome you to apply in English as soon as possible, we will go through applications on a regular basis.  Please apply through the provided link. Applications submitted via email will not be retained or taken into consideration. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.

If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at andreas.ragnarsson@volvocars.com or the recruiter at lovisa.ermell@volvocars.com. 

Location for this position can be in either Gothenburg or Stockholm.