Senior Data Engineer & Lead Data Engineer

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*We are looking for both a Senior Data Engineer and a Lead Data Engineer

Do you want to be part of a company that plays a role in the daily lives of almost everyone in Finland? S Group is Finland’s biggest private employer and is now a significant digital employer. With us, you will have the possibility to have a significant impact on the majority of people living in Finland. 

Our mission is to develop the best data products and analytics apps for S Group Retail Business. As a base platform for our data warehouse is Snowflake, our various businesses can utilize the immense assortment of rich and bountiful data. Sales receipts, orders, deliveries, and all store product assortments are just examples of the data that we receive, store, and refine, from every S Group retail brand and store all over Finland.

Our cross-functional team consists of multiple great minds working with retail data, for example, gas pricing for our gas station chain ABC and sales data from our stores like S-Market and Prisma. If you have a passion for data, a knack for problem-solving, and a desire to work with cutting-edge technologies, we want you on our team.

Your responsibilities

We are now growing our internal capabilities by recruiting two new team members to strengthen our Retail Analytics team in Helsinki.

As a Senior Data Engineer/ Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for developing scalable and efficient data models that power our analytics. Your primary duties will include dimensional data modeling. You will also design and implement data ingestion from source systems while ensuring data quality and adherence to established standards. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to derive insights from data and drive informed decisions. 

In addition, in the Lead Data Engineer role, you will work with the analytics Product Owner and Data Steward planning and refining the development team’s work. You will also work together with the PO to prioritize the development backlog, following and adhering to the chosen agile development practices (Scrum or Kanban). 

Our workplace is at our Helsinki office, Ässäkeskus. However, the teams decide independently how often they work at the office. Currently, the team works in a hybrid model and meets at the office on average 1-2 days per week.

Is this you?

You have hands-on experience with modern data warehouse technologies, such as Snowflake, and strong expertise in data modeling and data architecture. You have a collaborative team-working attitude and strong communication skills in English.

What we hope from you:  

• Proficiency in SQL for data manipulation and querying. 

• Previous experience with cloud platforms like AWS. 

• Familiarity with programming languages like Python. 

• Experience with data modeling tools like ADE, dbt, or similar. 

• A DevOps/DataOps mindset with a focus on automation and efficiency. 

In addition in the Lead role, we hope: 

• Curiosity toward a deep understanding of business processes. 

• Interest in working with business stakeholders in prioritizing and scoping data-driven solutions and business process challenges. 

• Previous experience in similar positions. 

What we offer

On top of a respectful salary, superb company benefits, and the finest colleagues, this is what we offer in return:    

• An opportunity to improve and influence the daily lives of S Group’s employees and millions of people.

• A stable and flexible working environment based on cooperative values and principles, the possibility of choosing your daily work rhythm and location.  

• Influence and responsibility. Our engineers have a lot of freedom in their work, but they also live with their solutions, and so do millions of users.  

• Ownership. You’re creating services directly for the end-users. You’re not visiting a project; you own the product together with your team.

• Workplace democracy. Our ways of working are not set in stone. Together we’ll continuously improve the ways of developing products and services.  

• Concrete and rewarding results, that you can experience yourself by using S-Group’s services, when doing your grocery shopping, fueling, or staying in a hotel.  

• An opportunity to gain know-how and technical competence in wide-ranging technology domains (like web, mobile, and cloud) as well as business domains (restaurants, hotels, online retail, and service stations), a lot of diverse growth and job opportunities.

• Occupational healthcare, sports, and culture benefits, lunch benefits in our staff restaurant, and access to the hobby and sports facilities in Ässäkeskus.

Interested? - We’ll be happy to hear from you  

Please send us your CV and an application highlighting your task-related skills by April 7, 2025, at the latest.

We will actively review applications and invite the most suitable candidates for further discussion. We will notify all applicants about the decision within two weeks after the deadline.

You’ll meet our recruiter, hiring manager, and some of your colleagues during our recruitment process. The last step of our process is the suitability assessment.

At S-Group, we are committed to working in a diverse and inclusive work environment where all our employees' unique backgrounds, skills, and perspectives are respected and valued.

At SOK IT & Development, we are a group of 500 diverse and talented professionals, each bringing a unique perspective and skill set to our shared mission. As part of the S-Group, Finland’s largest private employer with over 40,000 employees, we are entrusted with guiding the future of one of the most impactful organizations in Finland.

Our responsibility is clear – we provide strategic guidance and technological expertise to support all areas of the S-Group. We are uniquely positioned inside S-Group with billions of rows of data from multiple use cases and business domains, all intimately connected to Finns as they/we go about our daily routines. We build SW products, apps, and services highlighted by the regular dialogue between digital and IRL worlds, which genuinely makes our work consistently intriguing. We are design conscious, we believe in community internally and externally, pride ourselves on our open source commitment, our progressive path towards an Agile and DevOps culture, and our use of modern tools and democratic development standards for a holistic philosophy to modern and pure software development practices.

Read more about SOK Digital Development: https://www.s-group.dev/  

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