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.

What we offer 
As a Data Platform Engineer in Data Platforms you will support and maintain robust end-to-end platform capabilities that enable data and analytics teams across the organization 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.

Main responsibilities 
As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for DevOps of business critical data platform capabilities in collaboration with the team, product managers and the data engineering community.  By contributing with expertise and teamwork you will be instrumental in our mission to transform the data ecosystem to empower our company 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.  

Do you fit the profile? 
As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be an empowered member in one of our committed teams that support, maintains and 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 data engineering, Visualization (BI), Analytics, the modern data stacks, cloud infrastructure and be fluent in spoken and written English. 


Visualization Platform Engineer role description:
We are looking for a platform engineer with the responsibility to lead the support and manage our organization-wide settings that control how Visualization works.
As a Visualization platform engineer, we see that you have these responsibilities:
•    Work as a platform administrator of Power BI and Tableau global platform
•    Monitor, govern and enhance Power BI and Tableau frontend platform at a global scale
•    Act as a technical expert towards business for BI requirements
•    Power BI and Tableau capacity management
•    Workspace management
•    User license management
•    Support business teams with best practices
•    Tenant management controlling the new features of Power BI and Tableau SaaS
•    Actively perform continuous improvement activities at service and platform level
•    Learn, train & implement new business intelligence and data analytics concepts
•    Conducting user trainings to business users global and regional
•    We see that you have 2-3 years of work experience of a similar assignment and used to work in the Power Bi Admin portal and or Tableau
•    Good understanding about Microsoft Azure
•    Power Bi & Tableau Desktop

Additional requirements:
•    Good if the person has worked as a Power BI/Tableau developer so that the person also may support the business.

Who you are and what you believe in 
Embraces We Culture 
* You are customer focused and have a solution-oriented mindset
* You excel in collaboration, both with internal and external stakeholders, and are passionate about building a work environment based on trust

Curious
* You are passionate about software development and you have an interest in staying up to date with new technologies
* You are self-propelled and have an innovative and creative mind

Agile Mindset 
* You have a strong belief in agile ways of working
* You are flexible, open to new ideas and have a strong focus on continuous improvement

Communication
* You are an avid communicator, and are fluent in both spoken and written English
* You can build compelling and interesting presentations supporting your ideas
* You manage stakeholder expectations at various levels with ease
* You navigate confidently in a multi-cultural environment