Tech Lead for Forecasting team to PostNord!

Job description
Are you a talented leader and have deep technical skills? Do you want to be part of our digital transformation journey in our forecasting team? Then you should apply for thisTech Lead position!

Responsibilities
The Advanced Analytics & Automation team is responsible for establishing the future data landscape that will be the foundation for our data driven journey. It is our goal to create scalable solutions to support the development of valuable data solutions and address a broad range of data use cases from operations, self-service reporting and analytics to forecasting solutions. PostNord is the leader of logistics and postal services in the Nordics As a part of the IT organisation, we support a variety of different PostNord stakeholders in a multitude of areas, such as e.g. HR and logistics. We are already delivering business critical analytics that is an important piece of the puzzle of optimising our operations, and coming in now, you will be able to set your mark on the way we take our capabilities in the area to the next level. 

As the tech lead of a development team at PostNord, your duties can be divided in two categories. Primarily, you are the technical team lead and will be seen as accountable for the efficient, secure and compliant implementation and running of our various forecasts. You perform hands-on coding and mentor and lead the team in development processes and code standards. Secondly, you collaborate and interact with the existing development team as well as stakeholders, other team members, architects and line managers to design and define the competencies, processes, models and technology needed to meet business requirements and architectural strategy.  

The team delivery consists of developing, running and monitoring time series-based volume forecasting, based on our vast amounts of historical data on logistics operations in the Nordics. Team members consist of developers, data scientists, product owner and scrum master and as a tech lead you complement the team with a strong software engineering background.

Our technology is focused on the Azure stack, and includes Azure Auto ML, Azure ML Ops, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Power BI etc. We prefer to use Agile, and our unit applies a pragmatic approach to SAFe to resolve dependencies and set the pace for development, but we choose the appropriate approach for the product and team.

Qualifications
To fit in the Tech Lead role at PostNord you have been working with software development on an advanced level for several years. It is important that you like to remain hands on, able to take a lead role and enjoy working on complex and challenging solutions. You are familiar with implementation of machine learning models, and have an interest in understanding of the underlying mathematics, as well as the data- and computer science/programming skills needed to develop and deploy the forecasting models. As a person you are curious to learn and evolve your skill set in accordance with the state of the art pace in the domain that you work in. You have realised that modern software production resembles industrial production in the sense that it requires a scalable approach to QA and deployment, and you are also humble for the fact that creating and maintaining great solutions at scale is a team effort and not an initiative of a few superheroes.
We are happy to see that you want to develop in the long term in our team where we can give you good development opportunities and a chance to influence PostNord`s IT future!

Requirement:


Experience from lead team in development work, architectural discussions and processes 
At least 5 years experience of software development in an algorithm heavy domain
Cloud literacy – PostNord cloud strategy and data platform is developed in Azure
Competence to perform visualization of model output (Power BI are our default choice)
Python skills will be considered meriting
Communicates in English both written and speech


Meritorious:

- Experience of MLOps and enterprise scale software engineering
- Python skills will be considered meriting


We accept applications from all of EU but would require a remote colleague to be willing to visit on site on a regular basis. 

We offer you a flexible hybrid workplace with a prestige-free environment where we as a team help each other to reach our goals. We encourage self-sufficient leadership for development and career opportunities. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, we offer: 

 - Work in a Nordic and flexible environment
- Good insurance and occupational pension conditions 
- Wellness allowance & access to office gym and swimming pool 
- Employee benefits through PostNord's own employee foundation PostNord Plus 
- Employment according to a collective agreement

Welcome with your application!

Selection is ongoing and we want your application as soon as possible. In this recruitment, we collaborate with Randstad Technologies, for questions about the role contact responsible recruitment consultant Julia Rhönnstad, 0729872754, julia.rhonnstad@randstad.se 

About the company
We make everyday life easier!

PostNord is the leading supplier of communication and logistics solutions to, from, and within the Nordic region. We ensure the provision of a postal service to households and businesses in Sweden and Denmark. We aim to make everyday life easier and more sustainable for everyone who lives and works in the Nordic region.

We are accountable, brave and committed, effectively leading change regardless if we lead ourselves or others. We emphasize teamwork, sincerity and positive relationships in the workplace. We build on our success and learn from both colleagues and mistakes. People with different backgrounds work with us. You will therefore be part of a workplace with great diversity, which contributes to better results for the business. Visit us at www.postnord.com