Senior Data Engineer

Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment. A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted. We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations. We find meaning in our purpose: to enrich lives by bridging the world, and our identity and service mindset stems from our iconic brand’s Nordic heritage. Our values – Commitment to care, Working Together, Simplicity and Courage – guide us in everything we do.

We are now looking for a

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER / DATA ENGINEER

to strengthen our Data & Analytics team and looking for both Data Engineers and Senior Data Engineers to ensure our cloud-based data platform serving business needs across Finnair’s organization.

As our Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineer you’ll play a key role ensuring business objectives and enabling data lead business and operational decision making. In this role, you will be supporting multiple business domains. Your more specific focus area can be digital commerce, operations, customer or finance.

You can be already experienced data engineer with wide skill set or still in the beginning of your career.

Depending on your experience and profile, your responsibilities in this role include:

• Developing data pipelines and data solutions, such as data models and data marts, for various users

• Analyze content, quality, and lineage of the data sets under development

• Proactive interaction with other teams: code reviews, optimization of other teams’ developments, training and supporting other teams to ensure efficient and reliable data platform and build-up other teams skills

• Being the ambassadors of best practices

• Exploration of new technology and tools: regularly checking what are the current options, versions etc. to ensure efficiency and reliability

• Documentation: contributing to common documentation on architecture, working principles, owning the solution description documentation

• Training and self-development: Continuous development of own skills and training & supporting peers

• Continuous improvement of practices: increasing productivity and optimizing the use of resources, incl. cost control

• Onboarding of new team members and mentoring junior engineers

• Developing competence areas by acquiring and sharing new knowledge within the team

An ideal candidate would have experience in:

• working in AWS environment with technologies like Glue, Nifi, Kinesis, Kafka, Airflow, Python, Spark etc

• building and automating data pipelines for batch processing and streaming

• AWS resource management

• identifying and implementing optimization opportunities

• working in the agile environment

In addition, we highly appreciate:

• Understanding the core technologies in the team/organization and understands the high-level architectural design patterns

• Analytical mindset and the ability to visualize, articulate, solve problems, and make decisions based on the information available

• Ability to design and develop solutions or ways of working that speed up the work and make the work smoother for the rest of the team

• Independent and proactive working style in finding solutions and removing obstacles

• Excellent documentation and presentation skills

Experience of Informatica ETL and Oracle DW as well as knowledge in Data Science Methodologies and Data Visualization are an advantage.

As our Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineer you’ll be reporting to Head of Data Platform and Management. Our working language is English.

Working at Finnair:

We offer you an exciting opportunity to work in the fast-changing aviation and international travel industry in a culture that drives and enables professional development and continuous improvement. You will be supported by internally highly rated supervisory work with modern leadership practices that we constantly develop.

We are happy to enable our employees to enrich their lives and fulfill their travel dreams by offering a wide leisure travel benefit. We also support the health and wellbeing of our employees through our own Sickness Fund insurance benefit, Epassi sport, culture, wellbeing or commuting benefit, gyms around the Finnair campus and activities organized by our hobby clubs. 

If you have strong business acumen and enjoy working in a diverse, supportive work community, please submit your application with your CV, cover letter and salary expectation no later than Sunday, 13 April 2025. We might start contacting the most potential candidates already before that.

Please note that the hiring process includes a pre-employment security clearance and a drug test.

For more information, please contact Tiina Flytström (Vice President, Common Platforms) by phone +358 405017165 preferably on:

• Wednesday, 9 April between 2p to 3pm

Please note that we do not process applications submitted via email.

Our people are key to our success and the foundation that makes Finnair unique. We are committed to creating a safe work environment where all our people can thrive and succeed. We cherish diversity and strive to employ people with different backgrounds and experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business success.  According to our employee survey, respecting diversity is at a high level in our work community. You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.